Sublime

In the dense networks of the first cities, good ideas have a natural propensity to get into circulation. They spill over, and through that spilling they are preserved for future generations.

Project Genome

De Landa, Manuel. A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History. New York: Zone Books, 1997.

Rheged exemplifies the challenges facing geographers hoping to draw neat boundaries around kingdoms whose extent was either never recorded or can only be inferred after later administrators fossilized their boundaries. If some of the earliest territorial lordships are associated with natural cultural corelands such as the drainage basins of fertile