07 Sep 2016 The Ancient Beginnings of the Art of Shadow Puppetry By MartiniF History & Tradition 0 In his Republic, Plato mentions a cave in India with an inscription from the second century BCE. The inscription refers to a shadow play performance where puppets of humans and animals were manipulated by a puppeteer in that cave. The fire behind... Read More
05 Sep 2016 The Hunnic War Machine: Horsemen of the Steppe – Part II By Cam Rea History & Tradition 0 The fifth century politician and bishop Sidonius Apollinaris, wrote an interesting description on the horsemanship of the Huns, stating, “You would think the limbs of man and beast were born together, so firmly does the rider always stick to the... Read More
02 Sep 2016 The Hunnic War Machine: The Push Westward – Part I By Cam Rea History & Tradition 0 The steppe has produced many notable horse archers who brought terror and devastation to the known world during ancient times. But of the many steppe peoples who penetrated the civilized world, none brought more destruction then the Huns.Sometime... Read More
31 Aug 2016 The Wenhaston Doom: A Surprising Medieval Relic, Doomsday Message—and a Reminder of Pre-Christian Traditions By Charles Christian History & Tradition 0 A ‘Doom’ is a remarkable survival of a type of church decoration once common in the Middle Ages but largely destroyed during the iconoclastic excesses of the English Protestant Reformation during the reign of Edward VI (1547-1553) in the... Read More
30 Aug 2016 Ancient History of Cross-Dressing: From Ancient Religions to the Theaters By MartiniF History & Tradition 0 Ephippus, in a surviving fragment of his lost pamphlet depicting the court of Alexander the Great in 324-323 BC, alleges that Alexander liked to cross-dress as the Greek archer-goddess Artemis. Supposedly, Alexander often appeared in public as... Read More