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The Charitable Institution and the End of Civic Patronage
The Charitable Institution and the End of Civic Patronage
Volume II - Rome. On how Christian obligation redirected senatorial wealth and the woman who sold her estates to build the city's first hospital. Read more...
The Transformation of Rome and the Century Between Two Faiths
The Transformation of Rome and the Century Between Two Faiths
Volume II - Rome. On the century in which a single lifetime saw the Roman religious world transform entirely, and the poet who demonstrated that Virgil's language could carry the... Read more...
The Pax Romana and the Reach of the Roman World
The Pax Romana and the Reach of the Roman World
Volume II - Rome. On the two centuries in which Roman administration held together a world spanning three continents, and the woman who preserved a four-century line of philosophical transmission... Read more...
The Fall of the Republic and the Age of Augustus
The Fall of the Republic and the Age of Augustus
Volume II - Rome. On the generation that ended the Republic and the woman whose household became the structural foundation of the dynasty that followed. Read more...
The Alaouite Dynasty and the Making of a Moroccan State
The Alaouite Dynasty and the Making of a Moroccan State
Volume I - Marrakesh. On the dynasty that reunified Morocco from the desert margins of Tafilalt and the woman at the centre of its most complex court. Read more...
The Andalusian Inheritance and the Roads to Marrakesh
The Andalusian Inheritance and the Roads to Marrakesh
Volume I - Marrakesh. On the cultural sphere that bound the Iberian peninsula and the western Maghreb across centuries, and the tradition of transmission that carried Andalusian learning south. Read more...
The Almoravid Dynasty and the Foundation of Marrakesh
The Almoravid Dynasty and the Foundation of Marrakesh
Volume I - Marrakesh. On the dynasty that rode out of the western Sahara in the eleventh century and laid down the urban logic that still organises the city today. Read more...
Dihya and the Maghreb before Marrakesh
Dihya and the Maghreb before Marrakesh
Volume I - Marrakesh. On the Amazigh resistance leader whose name passed through two separate traditions of transmission before reaching the historical record. Read more...