Sublime

Valerio Borghese

Physical and social stress induced by the failure not just of a single harvest but of two or more failures within five years, followed by plague, are likely drivers of tensions among and between lordships, of reinforced psychological dependence on credible leadership and religion. The last imports of exotica from the Mediterranean landed on

Mirza Mughal’s attempts to act as a co-ordinating Commander-in-Chief had only very limited success.

it is worth thinking of a figure like Arthur in terms of the sort of lordship he might have enjoyed. In the Historia Brittonum he is explicitly not a king but a leader in war, fighting alongside kings or on their behalf. Conspicuously, while Gildas’s tyrants and the piratical warlords of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and Irish Annalsp are territorial

The situation of the Yamnaya chiefs might have been similar to that described by Barth in his account of the Yusufai Pathan invasion of the Swat valley in Pakistan in the sixteenth century. The invader, “faced with the sea of politically undifferentiated villagers proceeds to organize a central island of authority, and from this island he attempts