5 Citations
Books Received
- HistorySpeculum
- 2020
Acerbi, Fabio, and Gudrun Vuillemin-Diem, La transmission du savoir grec enOccident: Guillaume de Moerbeke, le Laur. Plut. 87.25 (Thémistius, “inDe an.”) et la bibliothèque de Boniface VIII.…
Fractured-Land and Political Fragmentation
- Economics
- 2020
Patterns of political unification and fragmentation have crucial implications for comparative economic development. Diamond (1997) famously argued that “fractured-land” was responsible for China’s…
POETS AND READERS IN SEVENTH-CENTURY ROME: POPE HONORIUS, LUCRETIUS, AND THE DOORS OF ST. PETER'S
- HistoryTraditio
- 2020
This essay offers several reasons for reconsidering seventh-century Rome's reputation as a literary dark age. It provides close readings of several epigrams inscribed in Roman churches during and…
The Fractured-Land Hypothesis
- Economics
- 2020
Patterns of political unification and fragmentation have crucial implications for comparative economic development. Diamond (1997) famously argued that “fractured land” was responsible for China’s…
The Fractured-Land Hypothesis
- Economics
- 2020
Patterns of political unification and fragmentation have crucial implications for comparative economic development. Diamond (1997) famously argued that “fractured land” was responsible for China's…