Why Japan Stopped Fighting
Wed, Apr 17, 2019Christopher Harding
After a disastrous Second World War, Japan abolished its armed forces and embraced pacifism. With renewed tensions in East Asia, can it last? [...]Source: History Today
Making Sense of Things
Tue, Apr 16, 2019Emma J. Wells
In the medieval period you could touch the divine – and smell it, see it, hear it and taste it, sometimes all at once. [...]Source: History Today
The roof is gone, the spire is gone, but the north and south towers of Notre Dame have withstood the conflagration. The rose windows survived, which is a freaking miracle. I thought they were goners for sure. The bells, including the great 13-ton bourdon Emmanuel, the only bell of Notre Dame to survive the cultural holocaust of the French Revolution, are intact. The artistic and religious treasures it held are safe in an [...]
Source: The History Blog
Numbers and Words
Mon, Apr 15, 2019Violet Moller
The medieval world was incredibly learned, but how did its great bank of knowledge spread – from Classical Greece to the libraries of the East and from there to the bookshelves of England? [...]Source: History Today