https://600transformer.blogspot.com/2019/06/another-d-day-reflection.html
Historian on the Edge: Another D-Day reflection
I always get melancholic with the D-Day commemorations. I was born in 1964, 20 years after D-Day when the people who fought in Normandy wer...
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https://600transformer.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-peoples-of-northern-europe-part-1.html
Historian on the Edge: The Peoples of Northern Europe (Part 1): Introduction and Preliminary...
[ This is the first part of my chapter for the Cambridge Archaeology of Late Antiquity on 'The peoples of northern Europe', which means an ...
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https://600transformer.blogspot.com/2012/06/in-lieu-of-post.html
Historian on the Edge: In Lieu of a Post
Some gems from bloggers more knowledgeable and more creative than I. http://stevesarson.blogspot.fr/2012/06/bullingon-kubla-cam.html ht...
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https://600transformer.blogspot.com/2012/07/thought-for-day.html
Historian on the Edge: Thought for the Day (and a bit)
In the latest in our series of latter-day koans for the (dys)functioning twenty-first-century historian, I offer the following for you to po...
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https://600transformer.blogspot.com/2014/06/an-interview-with-giorgio-agamben.html
Historian on the Edge: An Interview with Giorgio Agamben
Can be found on the Verso blog here . It is extremely interesting for all sorts of reasons and regular readers of this blog (if there are a...
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https://600transformer.blogspot.com/2011/10/riot-analysis.html
Historian on the Edge: Riot Analysis
The Government's own analysis of the social make-up of the rioters, reported in The Independent today ( http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...
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https://600transformer.blogspot.com/2016/04/peoples-of-northern-europe-in-late.html
Historian on the Edge: Peoples of Northern Europe in Late Antiquity: A Bibliography
Here, in case it is of any use, is the doubtless rather hit and miss bibliography to my chapter on 'The Peoples of Northern Europe' for th...
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https://600transformer.blogspot.com/2014/06/camrab.html
Historian on the Edge: CAMRAb
So King Juan Carlos is abdicating in favour of his son. This makes him, I think, the third European monarch in ?2 years to abdicate. It's ...
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https://600transformer.blogspot.com/2021/02/organising-late-antique-world-4.html
Historian on the Edge: Organising the Late Antique World (4): Theological Correctness gone mad: the...
The creation of a new, martial model of masculinity in the fourth century was one way in which the mental world began to be reorganised in t...
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https://600transformer.blogspot.com/2014/11/blog-post-published.html
Historian on the Edge: Blog-post Published
As of today, this post - one of the more viewed blog-posts on this site - is published: Two Worlds Become One: A 'Counter-Intuitive' View ...
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https://600transformer.blogspot.com/2013/01/invaluable-website.html
Historian on the Edge: Invaluable Website
For some inexplicable reason I have only just come across Mark 'Fingers' Handley's Late Antique and Early Medieval Inscriptions site, here ....
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https://600transformer.blogspot.com/2013/12/chifflets-anastasis-childerici-regis.html
Historian on the Edge: Chifflet's Anastasis Childerici Regis
Can be found on-line on Google books here . I am afraid I only found this out today.
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https://600transformer.blogspot.com/2011/04/dumb-ass-tv-history-moment-of-week-2.html
Historian on the Edge: Dumb-Ass TV-History Moment of the Week #2
The Snow Dynasty (and ship) And while we're on the subject of the social elite reproducing itself - all the while remembering that we liv...
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https://600transformer.blogspot.com/2012/02/officers-or-gentlemen-frankish_8494.html
Historian on the Edge: Officers or Gentlemen? The Frankish Aristocracy in the Sixth Century: Part 4
[ In the last installment of this piece (which begins here ), I examine the role of royal service in maintaining aristocratic power. It is ...
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https://600transformer.blogspot.com/2012/07/book-cover.html
Historian on the Edge: Book Cover
Here's the cover of my book. I hope you like it. I think it'll work to draw in the audience I'm trying to reach, even if, yes, it's a ...
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https://600transformer.blogspot.com/2011/03/collaboration.html
Historian on the Edge: Collaboration
... in a good way! If you have something you would like to say that is in line with the spirit and interests of this blog, I'm open to 'gue...
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https://600transformer.blogspot.com/2011/12/good-king-chilperic-again.html
Historian on the Edge: Good King Chilperic? (again)
Chilperic and Fredegund About ten years ago I wrote a piece about Gregory of Tours and Chilperic I of Neustria - usually regarded as Gre...
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https://600transformer.blogspot.com/2012/10/professor-grumpys-historical-manifesto.html
Historian on the Edge: Professor Grumpy's Historical Manifesto
[ This is an edited bit of my introductory 'briefing' lecture to my new second-years yesterday. I didn't get the feeling it went very well...
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https://600transformer.blogspot.com/2015/09/awkward-identities-in-merovingian-trier.html
Historian on the Edge: Awkward Identities in Merovingian Trier
[ While I was at the Austrasia conference, a number of people mentioned the problem of knowing why Metz was chosen as the capital, or chief...
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https://600transformer.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-ethnic-transformations-of-year-600.html
Historian on the Edge: The Ethnic Transformations of the Year 600 (A preliminary sketch): Part 1
[" Not talkin' 'bout the roots in the name/ talkin' 'bout the roots in the man', sang Lamont Dozier (and, later and more famously, Odyssey)....
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https://600transformer.blogspot.com/2011/01/historian-8th-best-job-in-world.html
Historian on the Edge: Historian: The 8th best job in the world (apparently)
Or 193rd worst job in the world. I can't help thinking there must more than seven better jobs (and/or more than 192 worse ones) than histo...
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https://600transformer.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-refugee-crisis-paris-attacks-and_8.html
Historian on the Edge: The Refugee Crisis, the Paris attacks and the Death of History. Part 2
[ In this part I begin to look at the ways in which the narratives used by 'historians' to comment on current affairs are constructed and th...
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https://600transformer.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-first-world-war-right-and-left-wing.html
Historian on the Edge: The First World War: Right- and left-wing interpretations?
[I post this with trepidation as it is likely to open all sorts of flood-gates of abuse.... What I want to do in this very personal ...
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https://600transformer.blogspot.com/2014/01/great-myths-of-migrations-no1-huns-and.html
Historian on the Edge: Great Myths of the Migrations, no.1: The Huns and Deformed Skulls
A deformed skull from an 'Alamannic' context If there is any aspect of 'Hunnic' archaeology that might be called 'well-known', I suppo...
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https://600transformer.blogspot.com/2014/04/getting-point-of-pointlessness.html
Historian on the Edge: Getting the Point of Pointlessness
[ I am off to Kalamazoo in a couple of weeks, or rather less (eek!) where I will be giving a paper in the Exemplaria session on 'New Criti...
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https://600transformer.blogspot.com/2014/11/society-individual-exclusion-update.html
Historian on the Edge: Society, Individual, Exclusion: Update
I have updated this post , the text of which is now the version submitted for publication rather than that delivered at the Padova conferenc...
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https://600transformer.blogspot.com/2011/12/query-about-socially-embedded-economy.html
Historian on the Edge: A Query About the Socially-Embedded Economy
If I want to avoid the word 'gift' - because I don't think that the exchange of objects or food in return for alliance/service/reciprocal be...
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https://600transformer.blogspot.com/2015/04/
Historian on the Edge: April 2015
The Historical, Philosophical and Political Musings of an Autistic Historian
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https://600transformer.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-theory-of-state.html
Historian on the Edge: The Theory of the State
[ As anyone who has followed this blog since its inception ( has anyone?) will know, I have long been interested in the issue of the post-i...
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https://600transformer.blogspot.com/2013/07/jackie-d-on-fear-of-writing.html
Historian on the Edge: Jackie D on the fear of writing
Here is one of my intellectual heroes talking about how, where and when fear came into his activity as a writer. I love the point he make...
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https://600transformer.blogspot.com/2011/10/worlds-of-arthur.html
Historian on the Edge: Worlds of Arthur
I heard today that Oxford University Press will publish my next book - Worlds of Arthur: The History and Archaeology of Britain After the R...
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https://600transformer.blogspot.com/2013/07/
Historian on the Edge: July 2013
The Historical, Philosophical and Political Musings of an Autistic Historian
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https://600transformer.blogspot.com/2010/10/woad-less-travelled-archaeology-of.html
Historian on the Edge: The Woad Less Travelled: the archaeology of earlier Pictish society and...
This is the text of the paper delivered to the First Millennia Studies Group at the University of Edinburgh, 5 October, 2010. Introduction...
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https://600transformer.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-not-so-natural-world-of-late_40.html
Historian on the Edge: The Not-so-Natural World of Late Antiquity (4): Sex and society
In the remainder of this [ cluster of posts ] I am going to talk about another way in which people divide up the world, which might seem n...
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https://600transformer.blogspot.com/2013/09/archaeorant.html
Historian on the Edge: Archaeorant
While I haven't got anything interesting or intelligent to say, might I recommend this very interesting piece to you, which makes a number ...
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https://600transformer.blogspot.com/2010/10/staffordshire-hoard-again.html
Historian on the Edge: Staffordshire Hoard Again...
Just came across this , a piece on the Hoard by Jonathan Jarrett (currently of Oxford). Now, I don't think the comments on the implication...
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https://600transformer.blogspot.com/2010/01/introductory.html
Historian on the Edge: Introductory
Ok. This is brief, to get me started ... and indeed it is my first ever 'Blog'. I have been awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship t...
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https://600transformer.blogspot.com/2013/05/for-students.html
Historian on the Edge: For the students...
With hat tip to one Bobby Kuechenmeister
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https://600transformer.blogspot.com/2010/05/gender-family-community-and-state.html
Historian on the Edge: Gender, Family, Community and State: Change Around 600
This is the text (more or less) of the plenary lecture that I gave to the Gender and Medieval Studies Conference back in January. It'll form...
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https://600transformer.blogspot.com/2021/11/
Historian on the Edge: November 2021
The Historical, Philosophical and Political Musings of an Autistic Historian
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