Hands up as another Canadian who’s never heard of this. I would’ve liked to have been shown this in our history classes as an example of a colonizer trying to decipher and reiterate a culture that is not their own. And maybe even delving into what the motives would be trying to document this at this time in history. Even this one-sided perspective needs to be spoken about rather than not speaking about it at all.
"His approach is very much european, Western-based. This is not a hierarchy that our peoples on *this* continent necessarily would have understood or embraced." Touché, and well-stated. When you said this was created as a tool to christianise these folk, I then I got chills up my spine. No doubt in order to "civilise" these peoples as this was also done by the protestants to Māori here in Aotearoa/New Zealand in the XIXth c.. Also chilling was the fact that M. Nicholas was a jesuit priest. The Society of Jesus was not directly involved with the various inquisitions though perhaps I wonder if they had a hand in burning and subjugating native peoples to their "christian" way as they brought the Word and their light of God down upon these already spiritual peoples.
Stranger danger! 😨 lol. This book is winning for coolest name and I love it's function as well. I loved the hot coals anecdote - so interesting to hear about these ancient practices and beliefs.
Wow, this is really cool. Being Canadian, I'm surprised I've never heard of this. Thank you for shining a light on this piece.
Nice, the Gilcrease museum felt like conservative oil money to me when I visited, but y’all always find the gems
I would love to see more obscure manuscript stuff like this.
We have a lot of manuscript material, have a look: smarthistory.org/medieval-europe-byzantium/books-in-medieval-europe/
@@smarthistory-art-history thanks awesome.
Very interesting. Thank you.
Fascinating! I never have heard of this codex, thank you for showing us!
Hands up as another Canadian who’s never heard of this. I would’ve liked to have been shown this in our history classes as an example of a colonizer trying to decipher and reiterate a culture that is not their own. And maybe even delving into what the motives would be trying to document this at this time in history. Even this one-sided perspective needs to be spoken about rather than not speaking about it at all.
Prayers Up, Tobacco Down! I am living for this
"His approach is very much european, Western-based. This is not a hierarchy that our peoples on *this* continent necessarily would have understood or embraced."
Touché, and well-stated. When you said this was created as a tool to christianise these folk, I then I got chills up my spine. No doubt in order to "civilise" these peoples as this was also done by the protestants to Māori here in Aotearoa/New Zealand in the XIXth c.. Also chilling was the fact that M. Nicholas was a jesuit priest. The Society of Jesus was not directly involved with the various inquisitions though perhaps I wonder if they had a hand in burning and subjugating native peoples to their "christian" way as they brought the Word and their light of God down upon these already spiritual peoples.
Stranger danger! 😨 lol.
This book is winning for coolest name and I love it's function as well. I loved the hot coals anecdote - so interesting to hear about these ancient practices and beliefs.
Een vreemde eenhoorn met schoenen aan ,maar er is wel meer vreemd en onbekend maar toch ook weer niet Hè zomaar een bekende naam vreemd toch of niet ?
Jesus give the guy a break. "we acknowledge its problematic aspects..." just ridiculous.