Music of the Ottoman Court

Makam, Composition and the Early Ottoman Instrumental Repertoire

Walter Feldman

Brill 2024

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https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004531260_001

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As I'm listening to the distant rumble of thunder today's blogpost will be about thunderstorms and great fires that destroyed cities:

https://memorablehistories.blogspot.com/2023/07/storms-and-fires.html

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A shorter text today. An account of a boy with a golden tooth in 16th century Silesia.

https://memorablehistories.blogspot.com/2023/07/a-golden-tooth-in-mouth-of-child-of.html

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Part two of the divine apparitions blogpost I felt that this account deserved a post of its own with commentary as it touched me while reading it.

https://memorablehistories.blogspot.com/2023/07/divine-apparitions-part-2.html

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Continuation on yesterday's post about demonic apparitions. Today we continue with a two part post on 16th century divine apparitions.

https://memorablehistories.blogspot.com/2023/07/divine-apparitions.html

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A rather long blog post today about several accounts of demonic possessions and various actions attributed to the devil. Everything from meowing nuns to lost knives.

https://memorablehistories.blogspot.com/2023/07/satanical-apparitions.html

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Today’s blogpost covers two medical accounts on surgeon Ambroise Parré’s attempts at curing gunshot wounds in the 16th century.

https://memorablehistories.blogspot.com/2023/07/memorable-medical-histories.html

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16th century true crime part 2.
Four 16th century accounts on how criminals were driven to confess by their guilty consciences.

https://memorablehistories.blogspot.com/2023/07/16th-century-true-crime-part-2.html

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Today's post:
🌠 Exploring 16th-century Astronomers' wondrous tales of comets fantastical descriptions of the things that lit up the Skies! ✨ https://memorablehistories.blogspot.com/2023/07/of-comets.html

#folklore #blog #treatises #16thcentury #strangeness #astronomy #comets #uap #HighStrangeness #histodon #history #Comets