Saturday, 17 March 2012

The non-Puritan roots of the American Right

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Here is a very splendid piece putting straight all those politicians and commentaries that claim a link between the allegedly Puritan alleg...
Tuesday, 6 March 2012

A Picture Says (Several) Thousand Words

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Have a look at this picture.  It is entitled 'Genseric's Invasion of Rome' (Нашествие Гензериха на Рим), painted in 1835-36 by K...
Tuesday, 28 February 2012

Officers or Gentlemen? The Frankish Aristocracy in the Sixth Century: Part 4

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[ In the last installment of this piece (which begins here ), I examine the role of royal service in maintaining aristocratic power.  It is ...

Officers or Gentlemen? The Frankish Aristocracy in the Sixth Century: Part 3

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[ The third installment of this draft article on the sixth-century aristocracy (which begins here ) looks at the significance for the deba...

Officers or Gentlemen? The Frankish Aristocracy in the Sixth Century: Part 2

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[ In this second chunk of the article, I look at the dynamics of royal-aristocratic relations and how the maintenance of patronage could w...

Officers or Gentlemen? The Frankish Aristocracy in the Sixth Century: Part 1

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[ This is the second part (the first installment of the first article can be found here ) of what started off as a single article about the ...

Translated Sources Handlist

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For ease of access, I have created a new 'page' for this (see the bar below the blog title, but this is the url).  Thanks again to ...