History questions not worth their own thread III

[aronnax]

I'm quite sure if happened to another of Popes too.

 

[Traitorfish]

Let me get this straight, you are asking if medieval Europeans had a bit of doing something similar to an event which is remember for being freakishly bizarre. Is this correct?

Well, I assumed that any other such incidents would be rather lower-key. An elaborate trial involving a corpse-pope is exceptional even if exhumation for public conviction was more common (and I do know that exhumation for posthumous execution was far from unheard of).

...And, in case it wasn't clear, "make a habit" was just me British. I wouldn't expect them to be doing it every second weekend, or anything.

It's a little late, but there's also Cromwell.

Did he get any sort of public trial? I know that they went through the whole rigmarole of a public execution and displaying the corpse.

 

[sydhe]

Here's another posthumous trial, from 1619.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_van_Ledenberg

 

[Cutlass]

In WWII the US Navy had an airplane, a single engine monoplane with a built in center pontoon that could be used for sitting or transport. The plane was used for recon and SAR. Does anyone remember the name of the plane?

 

[civ_king]

In WWII the US Navy had an airplane, a single engine monoplane with a built in center pontoon that could be used for sitting or transport. The plane was used for recon and SAR. Does anyone remember the name of the plane?

Curtis SC Seahawk?

 

[Cutlass]

I don't think that's the one I was thinking of. I was thinking of a plane that had cargo-passenger space in the pontoon.

 

[Leoreth]

I've always wondered how great the impact of Richard I's reign on his brother John's later failures were. I'm not that well informed about this era, but it seems that Richard is held in rather high esteem, although he wasn't at home often to actually govern his kingdom.

John Lackland sure wasn't the best king, but how much did the state of affairs he inherited from Richard contribute to his territorial losses?

 

[Dachs]

It didn't, not really; it was Richard's conquests as ruler of Poitou that got the Angevin possessions where they were. John mismanaged the war against Philippe Auguste all by himself, and then somehow discovered a genius for defensive operations just in time to win the Barons' War.

 

[Ajidica]

I don't think that's the one I was thinking of. I was thinking of a plane that had cargo-passenger space in the pontoon.

I know what plane you are thinking of. It was similar to a catalina flying boat. My dad has a lot of books on seaplanes. I can check those out.

 

[sophie]

It didn't, not really; it was Richard's conquests as ruler of Poitou that got the Angevin possessions where they were. John mismanaged the war against Philippe Auguste all by himself, and then somehow discovered a genius for defensive operations just in time to win the Barons' War.

Damn, beat me to it. But yeah, this, basically. Although I have seen a couple of John apologist papers out there that are pretty damned hilarious.

 

[Dachs]

It's entertaining to read what Liddell Hart wrote about John. He completely skips the campaign in France on the grounds that it's boring and doesn't prove his book's central premise, then orgasms over John's defensive operations and fortifications, which he describes as "indirect approach" because...um...he can. He spends more time talking about John's alleged "surfeit of peaches" death than on Bouvines.

 

[madviking]

Are there any good books on normal, civilian life during the Third Reich?

 

[sophie]

Are there any good books on normal, civilian life during the Third Reich?

Well, for a class last year I read a book called "Frauen" which was a San Franciscan woman's attempt to record the experiences of 30-something women from every region and every class of Third Reich society. Definitely a good place to start, I'd say.

 

[Cutlass]

I know what plane you are thinking of. It was similar to a catalina flying boat. My dad has a lot of books on seaplanes. I can check those out.

Thanks. I have a Janes book. But there are just too many entries to go through unless I can narrow it down a bit.

 

[Terrance888]

Can someone tell me Argentina's foreign policy during the Great Depression? Who did they support more? What minority Parties they have have to say?

 

[Leoreth]

Thanks for answering the John Lackland question.

Another one: how was Athens called in medieval "Byzantine" Greek during the early Middle Ages (say 700-1000 if the timeframe is important) and how would that name be rendered best in Latin letters?

 

[_random_]

From what I recall from AP World History, the Soviet Union was a lot laxer on Islam than on Judaism and Christianity. How true is this and why is it as true as it is?

 

[Tee Kay]

AFAIK, Islam is a lot less organised than the Christian churches, due to a lack of a centralised authority or a structured clergy. In that way it's less of a threat to Soviet state authority than the more organised churches.

 

[Louis XXIV]

I don't know a lot about this subject, but the Soviet Union had a pretty schizophrenic religious policy that had a lot to do with its love-hate relationship with the Orthodox church (especially under Stalin). I don't think there was any conscious policy to treat Islam better, but there certainly was a need to not alienate all the Muslims in the Central Asian Republics. My guess is, if there is any truth to that, it's either in comparison to non-Orthodox Christianity and Judaism or it's a disinterest in enforcing this particular tenant of Communism in areas so far from Moscow.

ETA: That's a good point too. Certainly, the institutional importance of the Orthodox church was something they felt the need to confront. However, Islam was almost too distant to concern them.

 

[Traitorfish]

From what I recall from AP World History, the Soviet Union was a lot laxer on Islam than on Judaism and Christianity. How true is this and why is it as true as it is?

It's true to the extent that there were was less of an attempt to actually stamp out Islamic worship, but religious adherence in general was still heavily discouraged, and certain sects, like the Sufis, and practices, like infant circumcision and the wearing of the veil, were suppressed.
There are, broadly speaking, three reasons for this. Firstly, because Islam did not represent an established bastion of the pre-revolutionary status quo, as Christianity and, to a lesser extent, Judaism were, and so were not regarded as constituting the same level of ideological threat to the Soviet state. Also, as Taillesskangaru mentioned, it was far less organised than the Christian churches (Catholic or Orthodox), and so did not provide an extra-governmental institution of any size, something which was, of course, intolerable. Secondly, because Islam was more heavily tied to the ethnic identities of the USSR, and, while the USSR pursued a program of Russification in Central Asia as it did elsewhere in the USSR, it was not as intensive, both because of the perceived lesser importance of such an endeavour, and because the Soviet Union liked to maintain a show of internationalism (inherited from the early Bolsheviks, who had taken a far more genuinely emancipatory line in regards to the Muslim populations of the empire) and friendship with the peoples of the Third World, which meant not too enthusiastically pursuing a policy of cultural imperialism in the USSR's largely Muslim and non-white Central Asian republics. Thirdly, the simple fact that the logistics of trying to enforce atheism on a dispersed body of peoples on the periphery of the Soviet Union were so great that, when compared to the percieved benefit of such an endeavour, was usually not really worth the bother.
However, Islam was still victimised as part of a general campaign of religious suppression in the late '70s and early '80s, a flailing Brezhnevite reaction the loosening grip of the Communist Party on popular ideology and the consequent revival of religious interests, and, particularly in Central Asia, of ethnic nationalisms antagonistic towards the Soviet state.