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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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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The reign of Justinian and Theodora seemed like it might be the recovery of a Roman Mediterranean; at first.
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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 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 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 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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Texts in Context:The Long Dusk of Antiquity By Gabriel Blanchard The ancient world—from the morning glow on the Bronze Age, through the high noon of Periclean Athens and
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You can say what you like about the Emperor Nero. … No really, go ahead. The bloke’s dead, he can’t stop you.
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Texts in ContextThe Pax Romana By Gabriel Blanchard “Behold, I Tell You a Mystery” The Divine Logos Naturally it is impossible, in a format like this, to write
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