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Translations of Primary Sources, c.300-c.800: A Handlist
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Thursday 4 April 2024
“If anyone wishes to cast off their kindred, let them go to the assembly…” Kinship, community, and identity in Merovingian Gaul
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[ This is a somewhat rewritten version of a plenary lecture I gave at a conference last year on the dissolvement [sic] of kinship ties, shor...
Monday 22 January 2024
Spectres of Marcus: the Roman Empire ‘between two deaths’
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This time, ah - ah Is coming like a ghost time When I wrote Barbarian Migrations and the Roman West , getting on for 20 years ago, I used a ...
Thursday 30 November 2023
Reflections on the End of Western Antiquity: 4. The supposed ‘Rupture’ of the Ancient Mediterranean , Part 4
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Several problems are raised by the economic/political paradigm. As indicated last time, my aim here is not to replace them but to add a new ...
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...
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