Saksagan
Severinus’s death left the community at the mercy of brutes
Severinus’s death left the community at the mercy of brutes. A bad barbarian (a son of the good king we just heard of) sacked...
Rebaptize catholic Christians
His world was full of good barbarians and bad barbarians. Roman forces—or, to be more precise, the forces that Rome paid—were fading away, leaving...
WHAT BECOMES Of THE ROMAN-HEARTED
Yet there were women among them who were to these as they were to town ladies, country women from a remoter country. The eyes...
A sexual instrument for the lord
Fourth, the privilege of the wealthy was reflected in some extraordinary vulnerabilities among the rest of society. A little girl growing up on the...
LIVING IN THE SOCIAL WORLD
Every page of our story assumes a society of huge chasms with wealth and status running among people who lived with each other every...
Destroyed by a Mamluk sultan in the thirteenth century
In Cosmas’s day, the prosperity of that world was enough to make a businessman’s mouth water. Gaza on the Mediterranean coast was already a...
Mesopotamia is the heart of modern Iraq
Mesopotamia is the heart of modern Iraq. The lands to its east over the Zagros Mountains—the highlands of classical Persia and modern Iran— are...
Gupta empire in India was deteriorating
Closer at hand, the Gupta empire in India was deteriorating, but the states that succeeded it were, if less coherently gathered together, doubtless more...
Eudocia 1067 part 21
It would be superfluous to praise the empress because of her family, although its wealth and antiquity cannot fail to confer lustre on the...
The Secret History part 84
The State had also always kept a large number of camels, which carried all the baggage when the Roman army marched against the foe....
