Sunday, 3 May 2026

The paintings in the Pantassa at Mistra formed the last important monument of the medieval free Greek world

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There is a great charm about it all; but it is the art of a civilization that has outlived its political basis, and art of wistful nostalgia...
Saturday, 2 May 2026

The epithet fits Andronicus II better than Andronicus III, who was not very pious

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All we know of him [Andrew, governor of the Peloponnese] is that he was appointed by 'the pious Emperor Andronicus' - the epithet fi...
Friday, 1 May 2026

Think of Adam and Eve like an imaginary number

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The Cassington Scholar is traditionally given to  a free thinker. It's his function to challenge the faith of the Scholars. Naturally he...
Wednesday, 25 March 2026

Each man must choose between corn and vengeance

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Those fields were the special joy of Mark Ukacierra. They bore witness to the power of the Kanun . Whole clans allowed their fields to go un...
Tuesday, 24 March 2026

If cotton was the king of the antebellum South, rice was her queen

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If cotton was the king of the antebellum South, rice was her queen for the three centuries of her engagement with slavery. With the revamp o...
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Monday, 23 March 2026

You don't just make a gumbo, you build one

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Now you can get everything you want, but back them a gumbo meant something - it told you what time it was. You don't just make a gumbo, ...
Sunday, 22 March 2026

With African American genealogy, it's more about social justice, regaining a heritage denied

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This is not a hobby. Look, for many white Americans, genealogy is a hobby, it gets them out of the house, gives them something to enjoy rese...