Tag Archives: Jean-Jacques Aillagon

''PROIBITA'': BOOGIE-WOOGIE BARBARIANS

Posted on June 1, 2010 by Dave

Rome and its attendant barbarians have come to serve as such comfortingly familiar symbols of qualities with apparently perpetual relevance to human affairs, that no amount of scholarly research or well-intentioned political re-contextualisation is likely entirely to rescue them from … Continue reading →

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HAIL TO THE CHIEF:THE EMPEROR WEARS GOLD & HAS NO CLOTHES

Posted on May 31, 2010 by Dave

”The prevailing soft multiculturalism of our times has made the phrase “the fall of Rome” a surprisingly controversial one. It’s much preferred to talk about “transformation” rather than “decline and fall.” In this “transformationist” view, the High Classical period of … Continue reading →

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BARBARIANS & BLINDED BY THE DARKNESS

Posted on May 29, 2010 by Dave

It’s been a long time, since anyone has been successfully convincing that with the collapse of the Roman empire, an objectively superior civilisation somehow ‘fell’, whatever that means, leading to ‘dark ages’ from which the peoples of Europe would … Continue reading →

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WILL THE LAST BARBARIAN POETICALLY TURN OUT THE LIGHT

Posted on May 28, 2010 by Dave

The barbarian invasions destroyed classical civilization in the period 350-700 A.D. The period included the fall of Rome in A.D. 476 and through the 500 or so years that followed , the Dark Ages became the early Middle Ages. … Continue reading →