#early modern

[cervenakoviny]

Renesanční fičúri - IV

Alebo čo by sa dalo hľadať v šatníku notára Barbariča.

(Kuk, tento meštiak má už aj okružie. A vidí sa mi nemecký.)

Zdroj - Zdroj - fb profil Historical costumes, album Renaissance

[eunuchboys]

Wax figures of a black eunuch in the restored Karaağalar Ward of Topkapı Palace 🌺

Here is a travel photo from 2014 with different figures

[cervenakoviny]

Horse gate in Prague circa 1600. From fb group Ďuro Červenák Fans.

[vintage-treasures]

Simple Microscope, Lignum Vitae, Glass, and Metal (1700–1799) Eighteenth-century single-lens magnifier. An object is placed on the adjustable metal needle, and the wooden rod is slid through the stem to achieve the correct focal length. Crafted from dense Lignum Vitae wood, the design protects a small colorless glass lens set within the wide circular frame. Loc. Corning Museum of Glass. Dim. 9.3 cm H x 5.8 cm W (3 2/3 x 2 1/4 in.).

[dalekowrites]

People also took the world Slavic and turned it into the slave. Gross world. It's both dehumanizing and so enlightening at times to learn the meaning behind words.

Yeah, it really can get grim fast. However, it's a little more complicated than people simply deciding to turn Slavic into slave!

The English word slave, like its counterparts in many other European languages, ultimately comes from the Medieval Latin sclavus. Most linguists think sclavus developed as an extended use of Sclavus ("Slav"), likely because many Slavic peoples were enslaved after conquests around the 9th-10th centuries. That said, the exact origin is still uncertain, and the etymology is reconstructed rather than definitively proven.

[dalekowrites]

Here's an interesting fact I learned today:

The word "buggery" (now an obsolete term for anal intercourse) actually derives from "Bulgarian."

This is because "buggery" originally meant heresy, of which anal intercourse was considered a subtype. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) notes that the term is:

[derived from] Anglo-Norman and Middle French bugre, bougre (French bougre) heretic (1172 in Old French as bogre), person who performs acts classed as ‘buggery’ […] (2nd half of the 13th cent.).

The CNRTL (National Center for Textual and Lexical Resources) expands on the French term "bougre":

Les Bulgares étant considérés comme hérétiques notamment en tant que population d'où au xes. sont issus les célèbres Bogomiles de tendance dualiste, adversaires de la hiérarchie ecclésiastique, niant plusieurs sacrements, dont le mariage, très répandus et souvent persécutés pendant tout le Moyen Âge dans les Balkans et dans l'Empire byzantin.

In English:

Bulgarians were considered heretics, particularly because they were the origin of the famous 10th-century Bogomils. This dualist sect opposed the church hierarchy and rejected several sacraments, including marriage. They were widespread and frequently persecuted throughout the Middle Ages across the Balkans and the Byzantine Empire.

[lonelymoonsthings]

Edward II or The Troublesome Reign and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England, with the Tragical Fall of Proud Mortimer, Christopher Marlowe

“At the death of his father, Edward II's French male lover, Gaveston, is summoned back from exile. As Edward flaunts his favourite to the court and revels in artistic and sexual enjoyment, his relationship is viewed with increasingly displeasure by the court nobles. Gaveston is banished, and finally captured and executed by the nobles. Before long, Edward finds a new lover, and civil war breaks out. Captured by his wife and her lover Mortimer, the King himself is murdered with shockingly obscene violence.”

Paperback

134 pages

British literature

Published 19 June 1593