rome – Meditations

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

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

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

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February 10, 2018

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

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

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

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

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

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