Just an FYI, I’m sharing this on the r/justified page.

You're welcome! I used to live in Arizona (I'm in East Tennessee now), and when my wife and I visited Bisbee we learned about the deportation. Apparently, when the posse rounded up the striking mine workers, they were held on the baseball field at Warren Ballpark until they were railroaded out of the state. I need to go back and read about where they all went after they were dumped off in rural New Mexico. I wonder how many went back to Arizona, and how many said "forget it" and went somewhere else.

Fantastic essay. This read like a novel.

I would think they were there in 1917, Granny was born in May of 1918.

I had no idea. That’s something I need to read more about. Thank you!

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I was also taught that an important reason why Christianity succeeded and Mithraism did not was that at the time Christianity had a strong appeal for women...in the early Christian church women were very important, there are a lot of strong women figures in the New Testament for example. Mithraism was the religion of soldiers, of males....don't know what current scholarship says tho. Augustine's mother was a Christian...as was Constantine's.

Not necessarily, it would depend on the type of warfare waged. Typically, medieval warfare tended to fall apart into two categories: the siege or the chévauchée. The former obviously targeted specific spots, often cities or key fortifications. But these were costly and hit or miss efforts.

Quite often, warfare would be about plunder & rapine. This was what we call the chévauchée, basically a large-scale raid seeking as much booty as possible. This type of warfare accomplished two goals, the first already mentioned, namely loot. The second was nevertheless also important, namely displaying the ineptitude of the defendant. This is why the English embarked on the famous chévauchées of the HYW: it showed that the Valois were weak & that the blatant failure to defend their lands from the ravages of the English, was an admittance that god favoured one side over the other, that legitimacy was on the side of the Plantagenets. This was a characteristic of medieval conflict resolution, endemically featuring at the lowest feudal echelons, but taken to the level of states and all the horrors of war that ensued.

So, on these types of campaigns, you can be sure they scoured the land for those villages all the same.

There’s not a whole lot you can do with a town like Harlan, factories don’t want to come because it’s secluded and businesses don’t want to open there because any business there that isn’t Walmart, a fast food place, or a grocery store is already failing because of the impoverished residents and dwindling population.

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You can try A Time Travelers Guide to Medieval England by Ian Mortimer. It basically only covers 14th century England and does not go into life on the continent. But it does go into village life, customs, laws, travel, urban life, and does not just focus on the nobility. For instance, it goes into how much things cost, how much an urban laborer could expect to make, and so on.

Thank you for sharing this!

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Any good recommendations on non-fiction books covering daily life in the late Middle Ages?

My SO asked for a non-fiction book dealing with the topic after being disappointed that another book she read really only dealt with war and the nobility. She would be interested in the nitty gritty details and logistics. For example, she expressed a lot of interest in a throw away line about how complicated the hierarchies of serfdom and different sub-groups actually were, and was disappointed it was basically treated in just a sentence. I realize it’s a long period of time, so something focusing on life after 1000 AD would be best.

And speaking of mining and labor wars, Bisbee is famous for the 1917 Bisbee Deportation, where the Phelps Dodge mining company, in collusion with the Cochise County (AZ) sheriff, sent a posse to round up 1,300 striking mine workers, stick them on rail cars, and send them to a tiny, remote area in New Mexico called Tres Hermanas. Bisbee is also famous for the Warren Ballpark, one of the oldest surviving baseball stadiums in the country.

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Daryl Cooper from Martyrmade podcast is doing an excellent series on this subject

That's outside of my area of expertise and it's speculative history, so I don't really have an opinion on Alfonso VI.

What I can say is that the Inquisition was linked to widespread antisemitism, on a European scale, its dealing with Muslims came later. So I think that the causes of the Inquisition are mainly independent of the Reconquista.

I received a copy of A World at Arms by Gerhard Weinberg. I am looking forward to reading it, as I know a lot of people regard it as one of the better single volume histories of the second world war

However, I did notice this is the first edition from back in 1994 when it was first published. I know a second edition came out in 2014. Would anyone be able to tell me if the updated edition contains any significant changes or updates to any of the information in the first edition?

My predicament is that during the first taifa period, Alfonso VI conquered Toledo and was quite close to unifying Spain under a tolerant and harmonious rule. But then came in the radical Almoravid and even more radical Almohad caliphates who practiced forced conversions and fed into the "us vs them" concept stereotypical of the reconquista. It could've been a unified, tolerant kingdom but instead turned out as the one religion "winning" over another one. How far do you agree with this?

Also those armies are not motorized and very rarely all on horseback. It's not hard to find them.

And armies don't want to occupy little villages. If there is one big city in the region, that's where they're going.

Yes and no. People misunderstand what this mean. His antisemitism wasn't influenced by America, so

>Did he learn how to treat Jews based on the way Americans treated blacks

no.

But when crafting racial laws, specifically those that defined who was or wasn't Jewish as far as Nazis were concerned, Nazis took inspiration of the "one drop rules" in some US laws.

So not in how to treat people, but yes in how to craft laws to discriminate against them.

Funny how that works isnt it. Same said for oil.

If this is an inappropriate question please feel free to delete; I’m interested in the history of the East India Company. Any good recs? Preferably nothing too dry 😎

No. Why would it be? The Spanish Inquisition was formed out of paranoia that newly converted Jews (and later Muslims) were not truly Christians. And so they hunted hidden Jews in the kingdom.

if you haven't already this would be a good read for r/union