Third Rome
First there was the Latin empire, polyglot and legal, centred on Rome. Then there was the…
Thoughts on coasts
We think about history in categories that are the imprints of how generations of tradition have…
The disappearance of stories from the world
If Snorri Sturlusen had not turned his court poet ear to the old stories among his…
The return of the venal office and tax-farmer
The French Revolution was in part a revolt against a degraded court, whose profligacy in prestige…
Final millennial prediction: initiative will continue to shift
Fernandez-Armesto’s final prediction is almost too mild. It would seem like stating the obvious until you…
The Armenian genocide
In the latter part of the nineteenth century, the Ottoman Empire began to crumble and to…
Millennial predictions
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto at the end of his 1995 Millenium: a history of our last thousand years made…