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September 14, 2018

Review: The Barbarian Empires of the Steppes, Kenneth W. Harl

Rating: 4 out of 5 I really enjoyed this one — there was a lot of in depth knowledge, and the steppes have not…

September 4, 2018

Review: The Mysterious Etruscans, Steven L. Tuck

Rating: 3 out of 5 I found this an enlightening series, mostly based on the fact that everyone knows so little about the Etruscans….

August 2, 2018

Review: The Storm Before the Storm, Mike Duncan

Rating: 4 out of 5 I enjoyed this narrative throughout though I was a bit surprised about the beginning — it felt more disjointed…

February 24, 2018

Who are the Fenns? (Edward Gibbon answers)

I quote:

February 10, 2018

Brough Castle

Brough was an interesting and imposing locale. That the site has been occupied in one way or another since the Roman period (if not…

December 2, 2017

Pevensey Castle (Norman)

The Norman keep, located within a larger Roman-era settlement, is another one of the places which I managed to visit at a very poor…

November 28, 2017

Anderitum, Litus Saxonicum

I’ll start with an admission that I spent far less time here than one could have. Not only was the English Heritage owned and…

July 25, 2017

Abdication of Justin II

One of the strengths of Mr Gibbon (Chapter 45) is his propensity to draw up images from the very moment the original events happened….

July 5, 2017

Gariannorum, Litus Saxonicum

The system known today as the Saxon shore forts was a Roman defensive system for the coast of what later became East Anglia. Not…

June 29, 2017

What was ‘today’ in Eastern Rome?

The question “What was a person thinking of as ‘today’?” in the Eastern Empire, as I asked over here on History SE, can have…

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