HeyJaredJoanna Chavez
Primary-source history and literary essays with a focus on Victorian Britain and the Crimean War. Second lens on Mexican American SoCal as lived history.
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The Guilded Quill Weekly No. 4 (opens the original)
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It’s been a hectic week and as travels come up and work picks up, wondering how realistic weekly dives into a bunch of different topics will hold up. That being said, I am ultra-committed to getting these out even if they are imperfect or incomplete; kind of like a snapshot of what I’ve been thinking through and consuming/analyzing for the last 7 days. Feel free to leave comments where you have any thoughts to add on any of these ideas. <a class="button primary" href="https://theguildedquill.sub
Two Knights in 1373 (opens the original)
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The Knights will be a large part of this little story I am concocting about the lead up to some fictional characters that will take part in the non-fictional Peasants’ Revolt of 1381. The full chapter out on Friday’s The Guilded Quill Weekly No. 4….more to come!<sourc
The Guilded Quill Weekly No. 3 (opens the original)
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Book TalkThe Country LifeI don’t know how else to explain it, but there are some writers that are just a masterclass in social observation and it certainly takes some skill. But I am not talking about someone who sits there and writes exactly what they see with that goal of perfectly capturing reality from the senses. There seems to be something much deeper about the way a observer reveals something a little extra on top of the senses. Something that shows a glimmer of consciousness beyond the c
The Role of Surrealism in Marketa Lazarová (1967) (opens the original)
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The Guilded Quill Weekly No. 2 (opens the original)
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Book TalkThis week’s main read is the Law and Life of Rome: Aspects of Greek and Roman Life by J.A. Crook1. The book attempts to explain major themes of Roman life through Law from Cicero (~82 BCE) to Ulpian (~224 CE) which, the author himself admits, is an incomplete attempt at understanding a society; the Law being a single lens set to one magnification and numerical aperture. Here are a few things I latched onto right from the beginning regarding this approach:<a class="image-
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