I'm still trying to finish off the proofs of my book and think up something coherent to say about the International Medieval Congress 2011 (in between … more
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politics
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Early medieval consensus and the prisoner’s dilemma
@ 2011-06-03 – 21:44:51
[ ... ] early medieval politics, and dived briefly into game theory to argue that the struggle for power in the early Middle Ages was in material terms, ... more -
Strategies of noble expansion in the early Middle Ages
@ 2010-07-02 – 23:17:14
This post has been lurking at the back of my mind for some months, but I’m prompted to bring it forward now by a post at A Corner of Tenth-Century Europe. … more -
The disadvantages of the religious marketplace
@ 2010-04-15 – 10:08:31
[ ... ] language of politics, business and religion inevitably tend to merge when both are trying to win over ‘floating voters’. But religious-based ... more -
The late Anglo-Saxon state: a maximum propaganda view
@ 2009-06-24 – 22:22:18
[ ... ] part of politics: persuasive images are vital, even if they don't match reality. There might not have been uniformity in institutions, for ... more -
Motherhood, apple pie and five Carolingians fighting in a sack
@ 2008-11-24 – 23:39:20
Two fairly well-known facts about Carolingian politics in the ninth century seem to have an obvious connection. Firstly, the century was marked by an … more -
Anti-intellectualism in cross-cultural perspective 2: the genealogy of the hippy
@ 2008-10-15 – 11:02:08
In my first post on this topic, I talked about two long enduring anti-intellectual attitudes: the populist resentment of the upwardly mobile scholar … more -
Birkbeck 4: the political uses of gender history
@ 2008-05-25 – 09:55:52
[ ... ] roots in the politics of the New Men’s movements, and political engagement was also one theme of an extra lecture associated with the conference: ... more -
Should historians be public intellectuals?
@ 2008-04-11 – 21:41:16
[ ... ] arguments in politics, just consider all the leaders since 1945 described as being a ‘second Hitler’ (from Nasser to Saddam and Bush to ... more -
Politics and morality
@ 2007-03-23 – 23:50:27
[ ... ] taking the politics out of morality, concentrating on the broad sweep of norms, rather than seeing particular moral campaigns as being ... more
