Sublime

In contrast to the view of many people today, water was not perceived as a barrier to communication and transport but rather as a means of facilitating it. Island and coastal communities would not have been considered remote and inaccessible, but instead as being closely connected to each other through an extensive network of maritime routes. A key

Violence, then, will not do as the primary explanation for the profound changes visible in Romano-British towns in the late fourth century and beyond. Those changes include the introduction of burial within walled areas, a practice specifically forbidden in Roman law; the construction of large, apparently public buildings that encroached on existin

Just as the einherjar would fight for the gods at the Ragnarök, the drowned also had their station, although a terrible one that they do not seem to have earned. As all the powers gather at the end, something will stir on the ocean floor, the greatest Viking ship ever made. Its name is Naglfar, ‘Nail-Ship’, so called because it is built from the fi

Those old fellas don’t want to be written about or filmed. They just keep our Law in secret places and sacred objects that are so powerful they take your breath away. They have no need to assert or defend this Law. It is immutable and will outlast anything you can inscribe on paper or store on a server.

Historians think Vesey was born in Bermuda in 1757. He was sold to a planter in Haiti, who ultimately returned Denmark to his original owner because he had epilepsy. Once Vesey’s master settled in Charleston, a cosmopolitan hub, Vesey became literate. At a crossroads of history, his story is yet another reminder of the breadth of the antebellum Sou

misplaced sense of rightful dominion over local communities, landscapes and wildlife. Reading their proposal in the same