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Pick Your Infodump Topic

Damojo

If you were to infodump passionately right now, what would your topic be?

I tend to get fired up by whatever I've been reading lately, so mine might be ... wait for it ... the contribution of the Black Death to the end of feudalism in Europe.

Can anyone beat that with something even more fascinating? I think I've set the bar pretty high.

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  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    At the moment I am wading through papers and books written by philologists and trying to find some of their original sources. Philology is not my natural choice of subject, but the end goal of possible connections or similar themes, is providing motivation.  The philologists have drawn on recent developments in genetics to help back up their theories of populations moving west from Mesopotamia. 

  • in reply to profdanger

    Delighted you are a collaborator in commonality of religions.

    Manichaeism is very interesting, although I haven’t investigated it in depth. I came across it first after learning that Augustine of Hippo converted from Manichaeism to Christianity. The elements of other religions that Manichaeism developed seem to say much about religious beliefs around the world at that time, simply because Mani develops the ideas further. Perhaps that is a superficial way of looking at it and maybe further study would change my limited understanding. 

  • in reply to profdanger

    If you start looking at Cathars and what they believed its very similar to Zorastrainism.

    One of the area I want to research is Goddesses pulled in carts by cats. Both Freya and Innana seemed to to be pulled in carts by cats. It's been suggested before that there's a link between Norse Gods and those of the ancient near east, it's certainly plausable, we tend to look at how peoples and idea moved from the fertile cresent south and west, but not so much norht and west.