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4 days ago

The Two Millennia of Roman History, with Ed Watts - Medievalists.net

A conversation with Ed Watts about his recent book, The Romans: A 2,000 Year History, which covers two millennia of Roman history, down to 1204 AD. We talk about questions of scale in writing history, of continuity and discontinuity in the Roman experience, and what enabled this polity to last for so long.
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fromMedievalists.net
3 months ago

The Renaissance and Byzantium are characters in the same play, with Ada Palmer - Medievalists.net

The Italian Renaissance and Byzantium are invented categories that shape the Western historical narrative.
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fromMedievalists.net
5 months ago

Conspiracy Theories and the Deep State, Now and Then, with Winston Berg - Medievalists.net

Conspiracy theories, including QAnon, reflect historical patterns of distrust in political institutions, as seen in both Byzantine and modern American contexts.
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