Jon Dell Isola

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Borges' Library of Babel and the Internet Age

I am away traveling this week, so I decided to write something a little different, hopefully you enjoy my writing (or rambling, take your pick). Earlier this year I read, for the first time, Jorge Luis Borges’ short story The Library of Babel and was struck by how relevant it

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Vikings and Kings and Battles, oh my

Subscribe now Later this week I will be traveling across the Atlantic to one of the biggest conferences for medieval historians in the world, the Leeds International Medieval Congress. This year I am moderating a panel as well as presenting some of my own research. For my own paper I

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Bastard, Usurper, King

"Illegitimate" sons and political destiny

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An Early Medieval Murder Mystery

or, did Arnulf have his cousin killed?

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What's the point of yet another history newsletter?

Into your hearts or into the void, either way