Archaeology in Europe (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
November 25, 2008—Archaeologists are touting a "jewel" of the Roman Empire: the city of Viminacium in modern-day Serbia. Watch the video...
The Run of Play (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
According to the Watford Observer, the coup that led to the resignation of Watford chairman Graham Simpson this morning was put in motion by a company called Valley Grown Salads. We are a long way from the days of the Roman Empire.
Cynical-C Blog (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
From Wikipedia: The Dancing Plague (or Dancing Epidemic) of 1518 was a case of dancing mania that occurred in Strasbourg, Alsace, France (then part of the Holy Roman Empire) in July 1518. Numerous people took to dancing for days without rest, and over the period of about one month, most of ...
Hulver's site (Free subscription) | yesterday
... having killed teh Moors, Sicily, Spain, Portugal and given a jolly good hiding to Venice, Holy Roman Empire and told the (French!!) Pope to set up shop in Corsica instead of Rome because I wanted it.
Asia Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
... system's ruling headpin - much like the Ostrogoths who sacked Rome in 476 AD and thus ended the Roman Empire in the West, The Citigroup rescue was as unexpected as a hard Saturday night partier who calls in sick on Monday - like so many other weekends this year, the 76% decline in the value of Citi's stock just from November 1 to 21 guaranteed that here would be yet another weekend...
STV News - Entertainment (Free subscription) | yesterday
A movie version of hit TV series 'Rome' is to be made. Bruno Heller, creator of the period drama, has revealed discussions for a big-screen outing are currently underway, but would not reveal the planned storyline. He told The Hollywood Reporter: "It's moving along. It's not there until it is there. I would love to round that show off." The programme chronicled the rise of the Roman empire...
Cinema Blend (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
Although the legendary five acre sets have been torn down and the actors moved onto new television series, HBO’s Rome might rebuild its empire in movie form. Show creator, Bruno Heller announces that “There is talk of a movie version. It’s moving along. It’s not there until it is there. I would love to round that show off.”The British show was co-produced with BBC and ran for two seasons, from...
Empire News (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
Rome, the HBO/BBC co-production that brought lavish production values, lashings of gore and steaming great big piles of rutting flesh to the tale of the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, was cancelled a couple of years ago, after just two acclaimed serie...
Westminster Wisdom (Free subscription) | 11/29/2008
Christopher Kelly's new biography of Attila the Hun is a welcome addition to the scholarship surrounding the later Roman empire. It is welcome because Attila is one of those figures who is always off stage in accounts which focus on what is happening in Ravenna, Milan and Constantinople- as the Eastern Empire struggled to survive and the Western Empire failed to. Attila himself as Kelly...
Jonathan Wallace (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008
I had an unexpected trip to Corbridge in the Tyne Valley, Northumberland, today, to take David to a magistrates reception. The house where the reception was held was just along the road from the Corbridge Roman site. So I dropped off David and went along to Corstopitum, armed with cameras.I have filmed videos in all sorts of places throughout the Roman Empire. And at some point...
What Does The Prayer Really Say? (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
... birth, explaining that this was expressed in the direction of our prayer. He then prayed the Roman Canon ad orientem (well, "liturgical" east, anyway, since our apse is actually to the west!). To wit (excerpt) : ... This watching and waiting, anticipating the Lord’s return, has historically been articulated throughout the Christian centuries in the language of sacred architecture. Since...
Grizzly Groundswell (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
The methods of the Roman Empire and Vlad Dracula were very effective in discouraging banditry and terrorism, but they would admittedly not pass muster under the U.S. Constitution. On the other hand, there is no question that most terrorists would be deterred by the prospect of being treated as horrifically than their victims. They should be treated as completely outside civilized law,...
ARLT Weblog (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
Thought Leader (South Africa) Combating Somali piracy … Roman style In the year 75BC, Gaius Julius Caesar, citizen of the great Roman Empire was sailing on a Roman battle trireme in the Mediterranean when pirates attacked the ship. Caesar was captured and ransomed, as was the practice back then. Legend has it that the great man was [...]
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/29/2008
Yiddish is the language of a people, not a place. Dennis Marks travels to New York to discover where it’s hiding, says Gillian ReynoldsYiddish is a strange language. Its origins are in Middle German, transliterated into Hebrew script. It goes back as far as the Holy Roman empire, flashes forward to Woody Allen, Neil Simon and Mel Brooks, runs deep as Isaac Bashevis Singer, winner of the...
The Toynbee convector (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
Though the name “capitulations”, by which [the] Ottoman charters to colonies of resident aliens came to be known, meant simply “articles” [headings of an agreement] and not, of course, “terms of surrender”, they did in fact have the effect of putting the Ottoman Empire at the mercy of the Frankish Powers in the latter days [...]
