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I normally send out a new post every two weeks but today (Oct. 28th) is the anniversary of the Battle of the Milvian Bridge in 312 AD so I wanted to be “topical,” (or at least as topical as can be when it comes to an event that happened over
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Narratives of decline and measuring "activeness"
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Political Betrayal in Moments of Crisis
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What is the meaning of Arnulf's weird name?
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How do historians decide what to study?
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Webs of Connections in the Ninth Century
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Assemblies, Ritual, and Political Communication
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Visions of East Frankish Imperium in a Vienna Manuscript
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What can a ninth century crisis of legitimacy teach us about Joe Biden's own crisis?
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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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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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"Illegitimate" sons and political destiny
