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Collections: The Siege of Eregion, Part III: What Catapults?
Published: March 14, 2025 17:26
This is the third part of our [I, II, I donāt know, a few more?] part series looking at Rings of Powerās Siege of Eregion from a military history perspective. Last week, we discussed the remarkably bad siege preparation of both sides: Adarās complete lackā¦
Collections: What Do Historians Do?
Published: March 7, 2025 05:28
For this week, I want to take a step back (weāll be back to our series on Rings of Power next week!) and talk about the craft of history: weāve talked about āHow Your History Gets Madeā from the perspective of the different people who do it ā researchā¦
Collections: The Siege of Eregion, Part II: What Siege Camp?
Published: February 28, 2025 15:42
This is the second part of our [your guess is as good as mine] part series looking at the Siege of Eregion from the second season of Amazonās Rings of Power. Last week, we saw how the logistics of this sequence absolutely do not work: Adarās army has toā¦
Collections: The Siege of Eregion, Part I: What Logistics?
Published: February 21, 2025 16:44
This is the first part of our [I donāt know; a few?] part series looking at the Siege of Eregion sequence from the second season of Amazonās Rings of Power and what we can learn by pointing out its missteps. And Iām not going to bury the lede here: thisā¦
Fireside Friday, February 14, 2025 (On Grant Funding)
Published: February 14, 2025 19:00
Hey folks! Happy Valentineās Day. Fireside this week and then hopefully next week weāll start into our look at the Siege of Eregion in Season 2 of Rings of Power and also the larger Tolkien legendarium. I confess, watching the show, my suspension ofā¦
Collections: The Strange Armor of Dragon Age: The Veilguard
Published: February 7, 2025 18:05
This week weāre going to have a bit of fun looking at some of the interesting armor choices for the recent Dragon Age: The Veilguard. In a way, this is an extension of the post on āThe Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor,ā because I think Veilguard provides aā¦
Collections: On the Gracchi, Part II: Gaius Gracchus
Published: January 31, 2025 20:56
Last time, we started our retrospective on the Gracchi looking at the elder brother Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus and his term as tribune of the plebs in 133 BCE; this week, weāll wrap up this look by discussing Tiberiusā younger brother Gaius Semproniusā¦
Gap Week (January 24, 2025)
Published: January 24, 2025 17:00
Hey, folks. As much as I hate doing it, I have to pull a āgap weekā this week, as the second part of the Gracchi series (on the younger brother, Gaius Gracchus) isnāt done yet and I have some academic travel that I need to prepare for which is going toā¦
Collections: On the Gracchi, Part I: Tiberius Gracchus
Published: January 17, 2025 18:49
This week, weāre going to talk a bit about the brothers Tiberius (trib. 133) and Gaius (trib. 123-2) Gracchus, the famous Roman reformers of the late second century. Thereās actually a fair bit to say about both of them, so weāre going to split thisā¦
Fireside Friday, January 10, 2025
Published: January 10, 2025 21:13
Hey folks, Fireside this week! Iām currently working on a post āOn the Gracchiā taking a somewhat darker look at everyoneās favorite Roman reformers (though hardly the same black takedowns Alexander and Cleopatra got) , which will hopefully be ready forā¦