What historic subjects are you studying at the moment?

The Renaissance period.
More specificaly, early 17th century Italian rapier dueling.

I am studying a translation by Tom Leoni of Salvator Fabris's monumental and influential work,
"Lo Shermo, overo Scienza d`Arme" ( on fencing or the knowledge of arms)

Salvator Fabris was arguably the most influential rapier master of his time.






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Women during the Depression. We just finished the Progressive Era and then jumped through the 20's quicker then lightning. It's interesting to see how women began to take on the more traditional roles again after so many were fighting for their rights and to prove their ability to be independent beings before the 19th amendment finally passed in 1920. I guess there was not much of a choice however in most cases.

 

OOO! Are you going to talk about his role concerning the passing of the 19th amendment? Well, I should really say that he didn't have much of a choice from what I have studied but the way he reacted toward the women and their protesting during war time is something interesting to read about.

 

Alrighty, just realized the post I just quoted was from 2007...not about to delete it though. :]

 

Civil War.

 

the fall of the japan and the atomic bomb. iv got a shelf of old TimeLife books with some fairly gruesome pictures & eyewitness accounts. gives me a whole new perspective of what those poor bastards went through.

 

Waffen-SS

 

Waffen SS. All who are fascinated by anomaly 'the Reich'
We all hope for a rational world
And it spouts a blackclad nazi empire that swallows 2/3 's of europe

Quote Kurtz. "the horror"
otherwise

materials technology
The black death
problems with stochastic analysis
backpack helo's

ooops 'historic' subjects.. Period 400 ad to 1400 ad. Needs a lot of work

 

I am fascinated by many parts of history, including the American Revolution, but I also really like knowing more about the fall of Rome and the rise of Christianity. As somebody who is interested in history and probability, it strikes me as highly improbable that an unknown teacher from a remote part of the Roman Empire who was crucified would have the impact on history that Jesus has had for 2000 years. At the time, there were other religious movements and would-be messiahs, but Christianity made it big time, and the others fell by the wayside.

 

I was reading about the 25 foreign SS divisions which were made up from Albanian and Yugoslavian Muslims fighting at will for the Reich against the soviet armies. Also the Latvian, Estonian and Lithuanian SS divisions that were more than willing to mass murder anyone behind the eastern frontline and then continued fighting the Russians well into the 50s.