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  • Holes in the Head: Medicine, Violence, and Survival in Early Medieval Britain and Brittany

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    When archaeologists opened an early Anglo-Saxon grave at Oxborough in Norfolk, one skull stopped them. It belonged to a woman who had reached old age, and someone had cut a clean opening into the left side of her head. The bone had healed around it. She lived for years with a hole in her skull, and no one wrote down why it was made.Holes in the Head is about wounds like hers, found across early ... Leer más

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  • Kuan Yin: The Eternal Goddess of Compassion

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    How a god became a goddess.She is called upon in storms at sea and in the silence of grief, in temples from Hangzhou to Los Angeles. Kuan Yin, the goddess of mercy, is one of the most worshipped figures on earth. Few of her devotees know that she began as a man: Avalokiteśvara, a male bodhisattva from India, whose transformation into a Chinese goddess has puzzled scholars for centuries.Kuan Yin: ... Leer más

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  • Enchanted Britain and Ireland: A Complete History of Magic in the British Isles

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    A Bronze Age sword is dropped into the Thames as an offering to powers beneath the water. A Roman citizen scratches a curse onto lead and casts it into a sacred spring. A medieval monk copies a spell for summoning angels into the margins of a psalter. A seventeenth-century farmer buries a bottle of nails and urine beneath his hearth to break a witch's curse. A modern Druid raises her arms to greet ... Leer más

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  • Borderlands and Bloodlines: Marcher Lords, Welsh Lords, and the Making of the Medieval Frontier (c. 1066–1300)

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    In 1210, King John had Maud de St Valéry and her eldest son walled up in a royal castle and left to starve. Offered the chance to buy her family's peace by surrendering her son as a hostage, she had refused, sending word that she would not entrust her child to a king who had murdered his own nephew. Her husband William de Braose — once the most powerful Marcher lord in Wales — died in exile in ... Leer más

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  • Roman Wales and the End of Roman Britain (43 - 410 CE)

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    Why did Wales stay Welsh?Rome conquered the region in brutal campaigns that lasted decades. Rome occupied it with more soldiers per square mile than almost anywhere else in the empire. Rome ruled it for more than three hundred years.And yet Wales never became Roman.No villas. No towns. No Latin. Just forts, roads, and a population that outlasted the empire by staying exactly who they'd always been ... Leer más

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  • Coyolxauhqui: The Dismembered Moon

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    In February 1978, electrical workers digging beneath downtown Mexico City struck a stone disk three meters across, carved with the dismembered body of a Mexica goddess. The stone had lain face-up under the colonial plaza for four and a half centuries.Her name was Coyolxauhqui, "Bells-Her-Cheeks." She was the daughter of the earth mother Coatlicue, the sister of the war god Huitzilopochtli, and the ... Leer más

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  • Seven Stars in the North: Seers, Sovereignty and the Celestial Bear in Indo-European Myth

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    A claim has circulated for years: that ancient Celtic tradition preserved an unbroken inheritance stretching back to Vedic India — seven sacred seers, seven ruling planets, a celestial bear watching over a queen's throne in the North. It's been cited and repeated across popular Celtic mythology and Indo-European studies alike. It has rarely been checked against the primary sources.Seven Stars in ... Leer más

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  • Tara: The Eternal Star of Compassion

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    Tara is the busiest goddess in Buddhism. She was born, so the story goes, from a god's tears, and she's been rushing to the rescue ever since.Her name means star. It also means the one who gets you across the river, which tells you the kind of trouble she was made for: the crossing you might not survive. For a thousand years she's been the deity you call when there's no time for the slow road to ... Leer más

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  • The World That Made the Silk Road: Nomads, Oasis Cities, and the Making of Inner Asia

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    Around 313 CE, a Sogdian trader sealed a letter that never reached home.Aurel Stein found it seventeen centuries later in a collapsed watchtower west of Dunhuang, one voice among the thousands who earned their living on the roads between China and the steppe. The World That Made the Silk Road is their book: the caravan brokers, the oasis gardeners, the horsemen of the grasslands, the scribes and ... Leer más

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  • Celtic Astronomical Knowledge and Agricultural Timing

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    Honey and beeswax survive. The hives that produced them do not.In the great cauldrons and drinking vessels of Iron Age Europe, archaeology has found traces of honey-rich drinks. Beeswax has been identified behind the silver plates of the Gundestrup cauldron. Centuries later, early Irish law could decide who owned a swarm, what a hive was worth, and how much honey the sick were owed.Yet no Iron Age ... Leer más

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  • The Invisible Hive: Honey, Mead and Beekeeping in Celtic Europe

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    Honey and beeswax survive. The hives that produced them do not.In the great cauldrons and drinking vessels of Iron Age Europe, archaeology has found traces of honey-rich drinks. Beeswax has been identified behind the silver plates of the Gundestrup cauldron. Centuries later, early Irish law could decide who owned a swarm, what a hive was worth, and how much honey the sick were owed.Yet no Iron Age ... Leer más

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  • Forest and Steppe: Climate, Landscape, and the Making of the Early Slavic World

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    At Novgorod's excavated cultural layers, wooden street planking dates to specific years through dendrochronology, birchbark documents preserve household correspondence, and pollen records trace centuries of forest clearance in the surrounding hinterland. This is the evidence from which the environmental history of the early Slavic world can be reconstructed.Forest and Steppe draws together ... Leer más

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