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13 Aug 2013, 1:17 pm
Harald the protagonist has story enough to fill out any self-respecting saga: he saw service in Byzantium and Kievan Rus and died fighting another Harald—rather, Harold—at Stamford Bridge in the North of England in 1066 (the winner went on to lose the Battle of Hastings to William of Normandy, aka William the Conqueror). [read post]
1 Jul 2013, 1:59 am
And All This Time, You Thought Monty Python Just Made the Whole Thing Up: In Marc Morris’s excellent recent book “The Norman Conquest: The Battle of Hastings and the Fall of Anglo-Saxon England ,” the author notes the following incident involving Exeter’s residents, as William the Conqueror besieged the city following the Norman Invasion: “According to William of Malmsbury, one of them staged something of a counter-demonstration by dropping his trousers… [read post]
18 Jun 2013, 12:01 am
Nearly two hundred years ago today came a night and day that altered the course of Western history. [read post]
27 Apr 2013, 12:30 am
According to Adams, the German scholars had demonstrated what English scholars resisted, that archaic German law, rather than Roman law or “William the Conqueror’s brain,” was the source of the English common law and of its constitutional system. [read post]
19 Mar 2013, 6:40 pm
And most particularly: one suspects that the Qing conquerors could if they wished have merely squashed these dissenters like a bug. [read post]
7 Mar 2013, 7:46 am
The discovery of Richard the III’s remains beneath a Leicester parking lot has spurred interest in Richard and his conqueror, Henry VII. [read post]
24 Sep 2012, 4:14 pm
Our Alecto edition of the Great Domesday was displayed open to a page in the Devonshire section--students enjoyed the authentic silver penny from the reign of William the Conqueror that was inserted in the front cover when the book was published. [read post]
31 Aug 2012, 4:11 am
The Common Law is an amalgamated product of Merry Olde England and its successive waves of conquerors and immigrants. [read post]
31 Aug 2012, 4:00 am
In fact, he so appreciates his fans, that he wrote a novel, Deluge: The Conqueror Worms II, which he offered for free on his website. [read post]
10 Jul 2012, 2:35 pm
While most Western academics argue otherwise, according to early Muslim writers, the great Library of Alexandria itself — deemed a repository of pagan knowledge contradicting the Koran — was destroyed under bin al-As's reign and in compliance with Caliph Omar's command....The technology now exists, the pyramid-haters observe, framing question to be whether Morsi is "pious" enough "to complete the Islamization process that started under the hands of Egypt's… [read post]
10 Jul 2012, 11:04 am
“If we try to portray them as evil conquerors when their audience sees them as protectors and champions, it damages our credibility and makes our communication less effective,” he said. [read post]
1 Jun 2012, 7:02 am
In the Courts of the Conqueror: The Ten Worst Indian Law Cases Ever Decided. [read post]
1 Jun 2012, 7:02 am
In the Courts of the Conqueror: The Ten Worst Indian Law Cases Ever Decided. [read post]
26 Apr 2012, 3:06 pm
"WALTER ECHO-HAWK: In his most recent book In the Courts of the Conqueror: The 10 Worst Indian Law Cases Ever Decided Echo-Hawk reveals how American law was used to destroy Native American culture. [read post]
17 Apr 2012, 9:01 am
Kang the Conqueror – not Chinese, but sounds like it, and did use the name “Scarlet Centurion” for a while, which sounds like a 60s-era Communist throwback (same argument can be used to exclude Ming the Merciless) 5. [read post]
15 Mar 2012, 9:20 pm
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12 Mar 2012, 12:01 pm
There was thus an extensive scholarly project in the early centuries to separate out the reliable traditions from the unreliable ones, based in part on each tradition's isnad, the account of who heard it, whom he told it to, and the series of oral links through which it was transmitted until it was eventually written down.Some recent scholars, primarily western, have challenged this traditional account, arguing that all or almost all of the traditions are bogus, invented long after… [read post]
9 Mar 2012, 6:22 am
One read, “There can be no justice in the court of the conqueror. [read post]
6 Feb 2012, 4:26 pm
Anglo-Saxons use the same device when we speak of "The Norman Yoke"--the "foreign" hegemony that arrived with William the Conqueror in 1066. [read post]
7 Dec 2011, 10:03 pm
Lastly, anyone who studied Afghanistan’s history and/or terrain would have realized that historically, and for good reason, it was an incredibly difficult country for any other country to conqueror and impose foreign “will” upon. [read post]
