Ancient History
From the Archives: Reading My Way Through Roman Britain, Pt. 2
The places I hang out on line are having a lot of fun theses days with the question of how often men think about the Roman Empire. The answer apparently being, a lot. (Really?) I have no idea who started it, or why. But it’s a natural for history nerds being nerdy. It has…
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From the Archives: Reading My Way Through Roman Britain, Pt. 1
The places I hang out on line are having a lot of fun theses days with the question of how often men think about the Roman Empire. The answer apparently being, a lot. (Really?) I have no idea who started it, or why. But it’s a natural for history nerds being nerdy. It has spawned…
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From the Archives: Word with a Past–Parchment
One of these days I’m going to come out the other side of this book, honest. Luckily I have 10+ years of blog posts to draw on in the meantime. I had forgotten all about this one from 2013. ***** For hundreds of years papyrus was the principal material on which books (or at least…
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