Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. This cockerel is not, alas, historic; but it is a cockerel. What was the inspiration for this project? I came across the case of Isaac Antrobus during my doctoral research, about the political activisms of the clergy in Lancashire and Cheshire during the reign of Charles I (1625-1649). I had…
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‘Every dynasty has within itself the seeds of its own downfall’? Dr Georg Christ discusses what economists can learn from the medieval writings of Ibn Khaldûn
Morroccan stamp featuring Ibn Khaldûn courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. In August last year, I attended the World Economic History Congress in Kyoto where I presented a paper on Ibn Khaldûn (1332-1406), the Arabic historian, lawyer and polymath. I was tasked to look at medieval thoughts on state intervention in the economic sector. I thought Ibn…
Unravelling the mystery of Queen Balthild: Professor Paul Fouracre on a ring that sparked a lot of head-scratching…
Saint Balthild statue at Luxembourg Garden. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Twenty years ago along with an American colleague I published a translation of and commentary on various Merovingian sources from seventh century Francia (France). Amongst them was the Life of a Queen Balthild who turned out to be very unusual. She had been a…
Respectable Resistance in Occupied France: Dr James Connolly discusses his latest article!
Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. James E. Connolly, ‘Notable Protests: Respectable Resistance in Occupied Northern France, 1914-1918,’ Historical Research, vol. 88, issue 242 (November 2015), pp. 693-715. It can be accessed online here This article is based on a chapter of my PhD thesis (and planned monograph) about French behaviours under the German occupation of the…
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