COMS 361 Lecture 2: COMS_361_____Lecture_notes_2
7 Dec 2020
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Coms 361 lecture notes 2 (september 8) The problem of writing a history of the night: The temptation to fall into clich s (the fearful night ) The difficulty, in particular, of reconstructing the lives of the ordinary people. Trailer for the prehistoric night of venus and mars". At the same time endless imagining of : clich images of the medi4val night, heavy metal music, cover art, video games, etc . Medieval town in transylvania asmr ambience video. Archeologist work back from artefacts, like material for making lamps, but difficulty of understanding their use/what kind of activities transpired at night. Archaeology of the night image of the viking house at night. The history of non-european nights may turn to oral histories, but there are limits to how far back these might go. Our key sources on the early nights tend to be literary: The set of folktales of sanskrit, persian and arabic origins (8th c)
