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smite cling-clang on the anvil of nimrod
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Most people are aware of caste systems in India, and I think they took firmer shape there and persisted longer due in part to the scriptural basis of Varna and some later legal developments, but a 16th or 17th c. central European travelling in India would not have found the Jati system alien at all.
Tragic but kind of beautiful story of an intercaste marriage in 17th century Augsburg
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From "Defiled Trades and Social Outcasts: Honor and Ritual Pollution in Early Modern Germany" by Kathy Stuart
sorry i don't normally just repost screenshots of other people's posts like this but i don't think i've ever felt so seen in my life.
I mainly posted this because I think at least as far as "popular history" goes, people often don't understand how deeply the European guild system penetrated into the social fabric of everyday life. Guilds gave concrete form to caste-like systems at their height in the LMA and Early Modernity.
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Today is Décadi the 10th of Prairial in the year 234.
Prairial is the month of meadows.
Today we celebrate the scythe. #JacobinDay
More information on the scythe
It's a sad farewell to one of the greats. RIP to John Blanche.
