I'm always amazed by the sheer stupidity on this imageboard. Let's try to raise the bar a little: anyone who has studied history or any humanities or social science at the university level, tell us about your research. What was the title of your thesis, and what were the core questions you explored?I earned a master’s degree in history, and my thesis focused on the divine right of kings during the early conflicts between Catholics and Protestants in France at the start of the Wars of Religion (my upper chronological limit was the St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre). The general idea was to demonstrate that the concept of the divine right of kings was not initially challenged, but rather used and manipulated by both sides, depending on what suited them at the time.
>>18400178>What was the title of your thesisDOXX YOURSELF OR AN ANONYMOUS NOBODY WILL DOUBT YOUR CREDENTIALS!!!
I just wanted to confirm that everyone posting here is a fucking dumbass who doesn't know what they're talking about. Not a single person has any qualifications. It would be laughable if it weren't so pathetic.
>>18400178>I earned a master’s degree in historyYears wasted. Crusader Kings gave me all the historical knowledge I need.
>>18400178>I earned a master’s degree in history, and my thesis focused on the divine right of kings during the early conflicts between Catholics and Protestants in France at the start of the Wars of ReligionYikes.. Eurocentric much? Where's the diversity? Why not study the anthropology of transfolx or unpack and decolonize milk?
>>18400482Crusader Kings can't teach you to evaluate sources though. (A LOT of evaluating sources in college)
>>18400178Classical sources. I’ve read the works of Greco-Roman philosophers in their original language. So I think I understand them pretty well.
>>18400644I learned how to evaluate sources online: If a jew says it, it's a lie. If a german says it, it's the truth. Everything in between, I decide for myself.
>>18400338so why don't you fuck off to some academic forum where your dire need for a rarefied atmosphere and mutual cocksucking would be easier to satisfy?
>>18400502>beer and racismjesus. We are nearly fucked.
>>18400852You decide nothing, frogposting cuck faggot. When a german says something he emulates his nemesis the jew in the worst way possible and tells you to take in more shitskin immigrants.
>>18400178Your degrees are so useless that you have to attempt to flex on 4chan of all places for validation lmao. Sorry but I actually majored in something profitable and prefer to study history in my free time.Also, funny how you ask people for the titles of their theses while not giving the title of yours. Almost like you're already aware that it'd be a self-doxxing to do so.
>appeal to credentials
>>18400178I wanted to do something on early Roman writing but it is frankly impossible to put something together on fragments alone without a tremendous amount of skill I do not have. My compromise was the earliest surviving Roman literature, which was theatre. I wrote on Plautus and comparing it to Menander. Main takeaways are>Roman theatre is willing to break the fourth wall constantly>Plautus used an impersonal prologus, who has no identity in the play, while all addresses made in the play are done by a plausible character, which in the case of the prologue was a god. >Plautus directly addresses his audience multiple times as himself, which Menander (and other Greek playwrights) never do>The Romans did not use an act structure or a chorus. Those that exist for Middle Republican works are essentially edited in by later authors or by us today.>The Romans did not use a permanent stage (like early Greek theatre) but emulated the aspects of a permanent stage which they did not have for their plays
>>18401331>>18401340Haha you're so dumb and it shows
>>18401340>Sorry but I actually majored in something profitablePlease enlighten us o' wise functioning member of society, what was your major? Computer Science?
>>18400178My sources and qualifications is my imagination and astral projection, i can project myself into the history.So whatever i say is objectively correct.
>>18400178I did study history at university. All the way from Bachelor to PhD at various institutions ranging from Prague, Cambridge and Copenhagen. I am currently working with it academically. My research is too niche so that even talking about it I would dox myself. But to divulge a little, I specialize in the Medieval Middle Eastern cultural environment after the fall of the Sasanians and the religious integration therein. I have done so throughout my entire academic career. Call it passion.That’s all I want to say, honestly. And next time, OP, please generate an image with a closed cup holder. Open containers are not allowed in any serious library.
>>18400178>He felt for the degree memeUtterly useless to pursue knowledge. Its only needed to find a job
>>18401445interesting how you get all riled up by exactly those posts that point out that you are trying to doxx people.
>>18401685Still waiting for a single clever sentence from you
>>18401744as if you were equipped to notice them.
>>18401779Lmao you're bad at this
>>18401424At any point in your study of these plays did you find weird cultural quirks, if so how did you understand these? I've tried reading some ancient plays but it always feels like I'm missing a lot of the good jokes because I lack the context. I tried reading annotated plays but they vary wildly in quality.
I divine the truth of history from my dreams.
>>18402175I think it's a matter of not having it physically shown, and that the ancients just found different things to be funny. I can't exactly say any cultural quirks other than they enjoy references to other works but I've had the same feeling reading through them, I often miss the joke until I carefully read it. I understand the joke and why it is funny but it's more of a dissecting the frog situation.
>>18401339When a Slav says something, I tell them I forgot my amulet of monkey-speak and walk away.
