LINES OF THE DAY

". . . But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But nothing is inherently over there or here. In that sense, the past has no content. The past -- or more accurately, pastness -- is a position. Thus, in no way can we identify the past as past." p. 15

". . . But we may want to keep in mind that deeds and words are not as distinguishable as often we presume. History does not belong only to its narrators, professional or amateur. While some of us debate what history is or was, others take it into their own hands." p. 153

Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (1995) by Michel-Rolph Trouillot

Friday, January 21, 2011

Medieval Battle Field and Warfare

"Nasty, brutish and not that short; medieval warfare was just as terrifying as you might imagine."

An account of the English Wars of the Roses in The Economist Magazine, built around the injuries, including the killing one, to the head of a young soldier in the Battle of Towton, 1461.
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