Historian on the Edge

The Historical, Philosophical and Political Musings of an Autistic Historian

Thursday, 30 November 2023

Reflections on 'The End of Western Antiquity': 3. The supposed ‘Rupture’ of the Ancient Mediterranean, Part 3

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In the third part of these reflections we finally enter the territory of the Pirenne Thesis, and indeed of my project: the changes of the la...
Monday, 16 October 2023

Reflections on 'The End of Western Antiquity': 2. The supposed ‘Rupture’ of the Ancient Mediterranean, Part 2

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In the previous post I was arguing, ultimately, that explaining ‘the end of Mediterranean unity’ is not a question of finding an ‘event’ tha...
Wednesday, 4 October 2023

Reflections on 'The End of Western Antiquity': 1. The supposed ‘Rupture’ of the Mediterranean World, Part 1

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  Re-cap Readers of this blog will be all-too-wearily aware that I have been working on the changes that took place in western Europe betwee...
Thursday, 15 December 2022

Professor Grumpy's tips on how to write a lecture quickly (not counting PowerPoint)

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  Don’t   write a script that will take you 50 minutes to read out: this will be far too much information for the students to take in 1 : De...

Archaeology, History and Bad Science: A critique of the analysis of DNA at Szólád (Hungary) and Collegno (Italy). Part 3 (Conclusions)

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Conclusions The aDNA analyses of Szólád and Collegno were combined with study of stable isotopes in the skeletons and then compared with t...
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