June 2012
52 posts
When you answer your questions, how do you do so in the font that you use? It's great, and I don't know how, thanks!
Oh, you just click that little thing that says ‘HTML’, and you make the font smaller, like so:
As much as I adore this blog and the posts, can you please try to stray from the Nazi-centrism? I mean, we have 5,000 years of history to cover, and you see awfully focused on 1933 - 1945.
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Sorry. That just happens to be what I find most interesting (not to mention what I know best).
… So I guess that’s a no to the Eichmann trial gifs and the Andrey Vlasov post I was going to write?
May 2012
58 posts
I doubt MET would decide to use the term Byzantine Empire if it was taboo for it's latest exhibition (Byzantine and Islam) which was pretty awesome! It shows the transformation of the empire lands
So we have three for “no, the term is fine”. There you have it anon… unless someone wants to disagree.
To answer the "Byzantium" question, it's not taboo. Many scholars, of both medieval history in general, and of specifically Eastern Rome use the term in their lectures, class titles, and publications. Using the term as an insult didn't appear until about two centuries after the fall of Constantinople. Using the term historically tells people you're talking about a specific polity within a specific period of time with a specific set of characteristics.
IF YOU SEE A TYPO
please correct me (see: that last post). I confuse the months of May and March a lot. I don’t even know what the difference between the two is.
Sacrificial Dance (The Chosen One) (Danse Sacrale (L'Élue))
May 29, 1913: The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du Printemps) premieres.
This ballet - set to music by Igor Stravinsky - was described by one London music journal as “hideous”. The same journal claimed that Stravinsky’s music (later popularized by Disney’s Fantasia) had “no relation to music at all as most of us understand the word”. Its premiere in Paris at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées was met with boos and heckling by members of the audience, who soon broke out in fights and arguments, finally resulting in the most famous classical music riot in history.
The unnatural choreography (by Vaslav Nijinsky), along with the strange costume design and even stranger plot added to the controversy and further incited the audience, perhaps more so than the music.
The Force Theme/Binary Sunset
John Williams
The Force is what gives a Jedi his power. It’s an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us; it binds the galaxy together.
- Star Wars (May 25, 1977)
