History videos

[jimbob]

So what did they do with all the monks who spent their lives copying bibles?

I guess that the Reformation, Counter Reformation and the 30 Years War, followed by start of European colonisation meant there were other employment options. And the Black death beforehand.

 

[jimbob]

I guess that the Reformation, Counter Reformation and the 30 Years War, followed by start of European colonisation meant there were other employment options. And the Black death beforehand.

But now I have an earworm

 

[jimbob]

This is quite obscure, but interesting if you're familiar with the Sumarian joke about a dog going into a tavern.

 

[Orphia Nay]

The Machine That Made Us (2008)

Stephen Fry: " ...everything that our culture and our civilisation depends on... starts... with Gutenberg's invention."
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Looks like just my thing, so I hunted down the full documentary.

 

[Trebuchet]

So what did they do with all the monks who spent their lives copying bibles?

Dunno, but those guys seem to have drawn an incredible number of dicks into the margins.

 

[Andy_Ross]

There's a game that lets you work in a Scriptorium.

Scriptorium: Master of Manuscripts on Steam

Run your manuscript workshop, receive orders to illustrate medieval books, decorate them any way you like, send them back to clients to get paid, and unlock new jobs, decorations, and items. Welcome to your very own medieval scriptorium!

store.steampowered.com

 

[Jack by the hedge]

For a moment I wondered why anyone would have employed someone just to be master of manuscripts on steam.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Dunno, but those guys seem to have drawn an incredible number of dicks into the margins.

Unisexual environment, voluntarily? No surprise how that goes. One of my cousins joined a monastic order because he didn't want to pretend he was interested in girls. He told me his life was much better when he stopped "pretending". Suicide is another option he considered.

 

[EHocking]

So what did they do with all the monks who spent their lives copying bibles?

… and is it coincidence that they are all now dead?

What is Big Church hiding!?!?

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The Sean Connery movie about the church with the poison "forbidden books" comes to mind.

 

[EHocking]

“A rose by any other name, is still a rose.”.

 

[theprestige]

This one just came up in my feed. I don't think I will click on it as I was unaware of what I presume was HMS Escher

Maybe @Gawdzilla Sama might appreciate it.

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HMS Escher doesn't seem to be a real vessel. The Internet keeps telling me that I maybe mean the HMS Archer.

What ship are you talking about?

 

[arthwollipot]

Has anybody mentioned Tasting History with Max Miller yet?

A food historian who makes food out of history (as best he can) while explaining the fascinating stories behind them.

 

[Trebuchet]

Unisexual environment, voluntarily? No surprise how that goes. One of my cousins joined a monastic order because he didn't want to pretend he was interested in girls. He told me his life was much better when he stopped "pretending". Suicide is another option he considered.

One of my college friends converted to Catholocism and became a priest for that reason. I didn't know that until decades later.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Has anybody mentioned Tasting History with Max Miller yet?

A food historian who makes food out of history (as best he can) while explaining the fascinating stories behind them.

The Hairy Bikers did something similar in one of their shows, meeting food historians to look at the origins of some modern favourites.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

One of my college friends converted to Catholocism and became a priest for that reason. I didn't know that until decades later.

It beats suicide I guess. Had two friends "go out together" (according to the note they left). Rural Indiana was not gay-tolerant in the '60s.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I guess that the Reformation, Counter Reformation and the 30 Years War, followed by start of European colonisation meant there were other employment options. And the Black death beforehand.

Please don't let T.rump see this.

 

[jimbob]

The Sean Connery movie about the church with the poison "forbidden books" comes to mind.

I like the book. And Foucault's Pendulum, which is a deconstruction of the sort of conspiracy thinking exhibited in (the later) Da Vinci Code etc.

 

[jimbob]

HMS Escher doesn't seem to be a real vessel. The Internet keeps telling me that I maybe mean the HMS Archer.

What ship are you talking about?

Check out the number of guns in the two gun turret in the AI slop video thumbnail I showed, which, from the headline, I guess is supposed to be about HMS Warspite.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

There's a reason they clear the weather decks when the mains are firing.