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By way of @rogueclassicist and Chuck Jones' Ancient World Online (AWOL) blog, I see that this open-access ebook (available also in print) is now available:

Sarah Derbew, Daniel Orrells, and Phiroze Vasunia, eds. Classics and Race: A Historical Reader. London: UCL Press, 2025. doi.org/10.14324/111.978180008.

"... provides scholars and students with an exploratory intellectual history of the complex relationships between Classics and racist/anti-racist thought-systems. It collects together a series of readings of historical primary sources from the late medieval period until the mid-twentieth century, bringing to light how the classical tradition and post-ancient constructions of race have informed each other. Each reading is accompanied by an essay, written by a leading specialist who offers a discussion of the primary source..."

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Rare medieval sword and axes unearthed near Biskupiec, Poland

Researchers have come across an extraordinary find close to Wielka Tymawa, a village in Poland’s Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. Members of the Biskupiec Detectorists Association “Gryf” stumbled upon a cache of medieval weapons...

More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/02/med

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Here's a medieval fire cover alongside my replica. This tool was used to prevent fire outbreaks but it also turns out to be very handy if you want to keep your coals glowing for a long time. Or if you want to prevent your cats from sitting in the fireplace. I also made a video about the production process of this fire cover. I don't know how to embed it so here's the link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joCMU8UPJM0

#livinghistory #reenactment #firecover #archeology #pottery #history #medieval #medievalhistory

This morning I woke up with a realization, my MMC for this novel is a Tang soldier and while I have tons of books and articles on merchants, frontier poetry and Chang'An. I have nothing on military structure, organization and life. #histodons and #ChineseHistory enthusiasts, what are some good books and articles in English and Chinese on the Tang military?

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