Comments on: Black Tudors Retrieves Forgotten History

By: Katie @ Doing Dewey

Katie @ Doing Dewey — Tue, 19 Dec 2017 04:16:00 +0000

I love learning about hidden history, especially about women and/or people of color who are so often written out of history. This sounds fascinating!

By: Tasha B. (heidenkind)

Tasha B. (heidenkind) — Thu, 14 Dec 2017 04:30:00 +0000

Awesome! I loved the microhistory There Are No Slaves in France so I’ll definitely keep an eye out for this

By: JeanPing

JeanPing — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 19:45:00 +0000

In reply to Jenny @ Reading the End.

Looks like it’s being published soon. Our book supplier has a date of 2018 on it and nobody has bought it yet, but it also says it’s in stock, so it’s just now happening. It’s not actually my purchasing area, but we’re flexible….
https://www.amazon.com/Black-British-Forgotten-David-Olusoga/dp/1447299760/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1513108082&sr=1-1&keywords=9781447299769

By: JeanPing

JeanPing — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 19:37:00 +0000

In reply to Jenny @ Reading the End. It's called Meetings With Manuscripts, and it's my new favorite book of 2017. And last night I was reading it and found a humor grenade DWJ left in a book! I may have yelled aloud. :)

By: Jenny @ Reading the End

Jenny @ Reading the End — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 02:24:00 +0000

In reply to Jeanne H. Griggs. Your daughter's so cool.

By: Jenny @ Reading the End

Jenny @ Reading the End — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 02:22:00 +0000

In reply to JeanPing. INTeresting! Ethiopia does seem to loom very large in European imagination, with the whole Prester John idea they had for so long, so I'm not unduly surprised. What's the fabulous new book about manuscripts? It sounds familiar!

By: Jenny @ Reading the End

Jenny @ Reading the End — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 02:22:00 +0000

In reply to Rachel. I'm kind of wondering if Black and British even came out in the US? My library doesn't have it, and my closest academic libraries don't have it either so I am thinky emoji about it. :/

By: Jenny @ Reading the End

Jenny @ Reading the End — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 02:21:00 +0000

In reply to Lisa May. Me too! I think this author does such a great job of it -- it's obvious she's done a living ton of research and work to uncover these folks and what she can of their life stories.

By: Lisa May

Lisa May — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 00:10:00 +0000

I love that medieval historians are fighting back against this warping of their field of study. And I also love books based on deep archives research, particularly when the author teases out stories from a fascinating scraps of information.

By: JeanPing

JeanPing — Mon, 11 Dec 2017 14:40:00 +0000

Neat! JUST LAST NIGHT I was reading this fabulous new book about certain medieval manuscripts, and in a chapter about a Spanish book from just before 1000, the author shows a map of the world and points out that the Ethiopia part is shown as larger and nearer to Spain than Greece is, and says that 10th century Europe was much more influenced by African culture than people realize. My medieval lit prof in college said something along those lines too, when a student argued that medieval societies were insular and racist (and therefore not worth studying, I think was her idea).