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  1. WI: King Richard III did not die at the battle of bosworth field

    I can't believe nobody has mentioned the historical documentary based on events very close to this: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xjemsu_s1e1-the-black-adder-the-foretelling_creation

  2. Roman Printing Press

    As I noted above, I do not really think the slave labor = slow development is quite as simple as the old model had it, but I have to admit my impression from the last I read on this (Harper's "Slavery in the Late Roman Empire", two or three years ago) is that the idea that agricultural and...

  3. Roman Printing Press

    Water-based printing until western printing spread to china. As far as I know chinese painters did not use oil paints until the Manchu dynasty, but to be quite honest, I have not fact-checked this thoroughly. The "cheap labor argument" is a traditional and not always entirely accurate way to...

  4. Roman Printing Press

    Early question: The (widespread and commonly traded) existence of block textile printing centuries before shows that the principle was not lacking in the early modern period. The romans had effective wine screw presses so there is no need to go to the artillery park to find the press...

  5. Roman Printing Press

    It is not just the paper, but the metallurgy of the type and as well. Gutenbergs crafts background was as a goldsmith. Block printing was well established in Europe his time (there was a veritable cloth printing industry in the Rhineland from the late 12th century on) and paper had been around...
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