Texts in Context: The Realignment of the Eight Century
The Roman Empire—not as a concrete state, but as an idea—was about to take on quite a different shape.
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Texts in Context: An Outline of Islam
In light of the role it will play in subsequent history (especially its importance in intellectual history), let’s take a moment to dig more deeply into Islam.
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Texts in Context: The Surrender
Texts in Context:The Surrender By Gabriel Blanchard Into the established dichotomies of the Græco-Roman West and the Syro-Persian East, suddenly, out of the south, something new leapt forth
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Texts in Context: The Song of the Desert
The defining institution of antiquity had been the forum; that of early modernity would, perhaps, be a school. The path from the one to the other ran through a cloister.
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Texts in Context: The Real Dark Ages
We turn now to the pathless north, to see if there is any light we can shed upon an age famed most for its slain dragons, extinct giants, and other elusive natives of Faërie.
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Texts in Context: The Roman Empire After Rome
The reign of Justinian and Theodora seemed like it might be the recovery of a Roman Mediterranean; at first.
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Texts in Context: From Antiquity to the Mediævum
We have come now to, perhaps, the most libeled and distorted period in all of human history. Let’s clear a few things up before we properly begin!
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Texts in Context: Timeline of Classical Antiquity—Part II
Texts in Context:Timeline of Classical Antiquity—Part II By Gabriel Blanchard This timeline covers approximately the second half of Classical Antiquity, i.e. the late first century BC to the late
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Texts in Context: Timeline of Classical Antiquity—Part I
Texts in Context:Timeline of Classical Antiquity—Part I By Gabriel Blanchard This timeline covers approximately the first half of Classical Antiquity, i.e. the early fifth to late first centuries
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Texts in Context: Nightfall on Classical Antiquity
Texts in Context:Nightfall on Classical Antiquity By Gabriel Blanchard Not with a bang, but with an administrative technicality. Constantine the Great History and pop culture tell us the
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