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Why Pearse’s Mithras Pages Are Important
Mithras relief from Dormagen When, in 2040, the departments of humanities will be closed, an elderly historian will perhaps wonder what caused the demise of scholarship. Probably, he will answer that… more →
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Designing Databases for Historical Research
wrote 2 weeks ago: The Institute of Historical Research now offer a wide selection of digital research training package … more →
Space Jam
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wrote 1 month ago: In honor of March Madness, I give you: Okay, so this is not a post about college basketball and Syra … more →
Historical Theory & Abstract Concepts of Interpretation
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wrote 2 months ago: After studying history for almost six years now, one might assume that I have grown accustomed to an … more →
Why Pearse’s Mithras Pages Are Important
wrote 2 months ago: Mithras relief from Dormagen When, in 2040, the departments of humanities will be closed, an elderly … more →
Postscript
wrote 3 months ago: And another thing… This: Skeleton recently identified as that of Richard III seems to answer a … more →
Bah. And Furthermore, Humbug.
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wrote 3 months ago: Apparently we will discover later today whether a skeleton excavated in a Leicester car park is that … more →
Reuse, Recycle
wrote 4 months ago: Have just finished the paper that I’m giving in Freiburg on Thursday evening on Thukydides und … more →
Roman Globalisation
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wrote 4 months ago: Students of the ancient economy are all too familiar with the situation of being in the middle of a … more →
Online Sources in the Classroom
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wrote 9 months ago: [A response to this post by James F. McGrath] In 1995 I started my first personal webpage, which I u … more →
Thucydides Our Contemporary? Part IV
wrote 9 months ago: Can’t quite believe that it’s been a month since the Thucydides Our Contemporary? confer … more →
Abusing the Bible
wrote 10 months ago: Marib, capital of Sheba That was a nice article. Scientists confirmed that there are close links bet … more →
Why I Shall Clearly Never Be A Popular Writer of History
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wrote 1 year ago: The new book by Tom Holland on the origins and rise of Islam and the collapse of the Roman and Persi … more →
When scholars sound like salesmen
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wrote 1 year ago: It’s a classic scene from daily life at an office that may already have been ridiculed by Dilb … more →
Book Reviews
wrote 1 year ago: For those interesting in my opinion about the good, the bad, and the irrelevant, I have added a new … more →
How to goropise effectively
wrote 1 year ago: Johannes Goropius Becanus (1519-1572) was one of those brilliant erudites of the late Renaissance, a … more →
Bridging the gap
wrote 1 year ago: On more than one occasion, I have indicated how the study of Antiquity is its own reward (example, e … more →
Citizens and Scholars
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wrote 1 year ago: In my previous post, I explained why the study of Antiquity matters. However, if you take a look at … more →
Why the Humanities Matter
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wrote 1 year ago: Why study classics? For Wolf and Von Humboldt, the men who organized the study of Antiquity, the ans … more →
The Return of Grand Narrative in the Human Sciences
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wrote 1 year ago: I’m a participant in an online seminar in David Graeber’s Debt: the first 5,000 years, a … more →
