Book talk with Dr Hugh Thomas on your book "Power and Pleasure" (OUP 2021)
Dear Hugh,
Greetings! I enjoyed your book talk re 'Dr Hugh Thomas on your book "Power and Pleasure"' OUP 2021, which I found and watched on Youtube on Thanksgiving yesterday.
How are you doing? I thought too to call you to say hi on Thanksgiving, but may do so over the next few days instead.
Appreciating the sources' approaches you shared, and the ' social theory' and historiographical approaches to this ancient subject:
Book Talk with Dr. Hugh Thomas: Power and Pleasure, Court Life Under King John, 1199-1216
I added these references to the History wiki school at MIT OCW-centric World Univ & Sch -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/History to these sections (and updated the Navigation a bit too, and by hand ... did I get these citations correct, more or less, for now?)
Select Books -
Thomas, Hugh M. 2021. Power and Pleasure Court Life under King John, 1199-1216. Oxford, England, Oxford University Press.
Select Video and Audio -
Thomas, Hugh M. 2021. [
https://youtu.be/4APZI54_lHs Book Talk with Dr. Hugh Thomas: Power and Pleasure, Court Life Under King John, 1199-1216]. Miami, FL: University of Miami Humanities.
I can't see from your talk how a realistic virtual earth for history (thinking Google Street View with a time slider) would be a helpful research tool, but perhaps your book itself would offer new avenues and resources, like images to build this from.
I looked up your "Power and Pleasure" in World Catalog (
https://search.worldcat.org/ - in which library locations for my "Naked Harbin Ethnography" can be found for physical copies) to see where I might find your book in Pittsburgh, and it looks like it's available at Carlow College and Robert Morris College and Westminster College.
I thought to ask some questions during the talk about the way the Magna Carta fits further into your King John narratives (and possibly about Edward I too ... but may wait until we speak or see each other).
All the best, thanks, talk with you soon potentially,
Scott
Have blogged a bit about this today as well -
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I created a set of Tweets about your talk -
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Have you used or can you see using WikiTree for your medieval historical research Hugh ? -
Here are some of my Wikitree genealogy platform explorations into ancestors, and for example, search on:
Guernsey lily - Wednesday, September 27, 2023
Rosy posy - Sunday, November 15, 2020
"I just wiki-added a few more ancestors in WikiTree genealogy software to make it possible to go from moi to Major General Benjamin Lincoln ( who is supposed to have accepted the sword of surrender from the British and fought also in a battle called Shay's Rebellion near the Springfield armory in MA in 1786-87) in my Chadbourne line - "
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and, out of the box, even regarding -
retweeting
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Longevity wiki school pic -
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Resources -
Power and Pleasure
Court Life under King John, 1199-1216
Hugh M. Thomas
2021
Oxford University Press
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Notes -
History of medieval courts (like King John's)
Norbert Elias on courts
mention of Anthropology
around 9 minutes
Soft power
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added this to Youtube under your video -
Thanks, Hugh ... looking forward to talking, and Happy Thanksgiving ! -
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With David Thurston on Thanksgiving ~ Flying cars in the future, and with Google Street View as traffic control, possibly?
Scott -
Hi David, any chance you can fly up here in a flying car with Google Maps' air traffic routing for a hike here -Clarion River Loop on AllTrails
David -
Hey Scott,
Happy Thanksgiving! I've been working flat out and then got in the car and I'm in North Carolina with cousins on my mother's side 60s and sunny very nice. Enjoy your holiday.
Scott -
Hi David! Sounds like a great trip to your cousins, mother's side of your family, in North Carolina! Happy Thanksgiving ! 2 hours northeast of Pittsburgh around the Marienville Ranger station, near where a regional Rainbow Gathering may have occurred in 2021, for a hike was an exploration, but no Rainbow people - Heading west to a newly safe open 670 Ridgecrest Rd Canyon 94516 in the new year has much appeal - and thanks to Ed Smyth MD's precipitation in March 2022 fwd! I'm glad/hope the climate scientists and lawyers are getting global climate change modeling and planning right - found gas for $1.95/gallon for 88 octane gas (down from $2.96 /gallon last time I filled up at the Scheetz's gas station where 87 octane costs around $3.49 there these days) ... Hoping if flying cars are developed that we can add a sail or hang gliding aspect to gas or solar etc propelled motors. ... Happy Thanksgiving with your family! I hope to get my mother at the PIT airport tomorrow at 7 coming back from visiting Sandy in Portland ME And to go out for a Thanksgiving dinner at 'Burgh Thai restaurant near her place (if you'd like to join virtually, see at bottom . . .
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2023/11/bell-bean-mz-national-flower-of.html ... but probably not in a conference call:) - and with friends. Enjoy your holiday! Scott (
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20climate%20change -
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/solar -
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/sailing )
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I've added these recently to my Google schedule, and they're helpful prompts -
8am
Yoga explorations - Angela & Victor inspired?
9am
Write Society Info Tech & the Global Univ
10am
play bagpipes
11am
Play/learn Blues' piano
12 noon
Read fascinating and thinking generating books
1pm
Improve German speaking with Google Bard AI
2pm
WUaS Home Robotics - Make a Gorilla Robot again
3pm
Develop World Univ & Sch's wiki
... more later about these, and current foci ...
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https://www.sciencephoto.com/media/1010453/view/welwitschia-mirabilis-in-the-namib-desert
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welwitschia
https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Welwitschia
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Welwitschia_mirabilis
https://symbolhunt.com/national-flowers/
...