The American Historical Association called Professor Ramsay MacMullen the “greatest historian of the Roman Empire alive today”. As he has sadly passed away, who could be considered worthy of that title?
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The Persianate cultures of the 11th to 14th centuries produced highly heterodox, satirical and even subversive writers like Omar Khayyam, Rumi and Ubayd Zakani. What about those cultures allowed such writers to thrive in an age of fanaticism and intolerance?
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Is it true that Chen Jiongming was who people think Sun Yat-sen was?
Why didn’t the Tokugawa Shogunate take quick and decisive action to solve the ronin problem that resulted in such disturbances as the Keian Uprising?
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If converting to Catholicism is swimming the Tiber, what is converting to Orthodoxy?
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The last head of the Athenian Neo-Platonist Academy, Damascius, wrote about the persecutions of the Hellenic religion in late Antiquity. Do historians consider his testimony accurate, which contradicts popular notions of a peaceful mass-conversion to Christianity?
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Why were Cao Cao's descendants permitted to hold the title of King of Chenliu for so long?
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Philosophical Taoism is 99% White hippies, accurate?
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Did Confucius regard Ran Qiu positively or not?
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Rabbi Tarfon was said to have taken 300 wives so they could share in his purified priestly offerings. Assuming this actually happened, would this have been legal under Roman law and acceptable under Jewish practice in 2nd century Judea?
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Before Talleyrand took up his later career as revolutionary and diplomat, he was a Bishop. Did he have to constrain his famously decadent lifestyle during that period or was he free to live as he would have liked?
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Random question but does anyone know what those robe things Kendrick has on in HUMBLE are?
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Is there any historical consensus on who between the Orthodox and Catholic camps has the more correct claim regarding Papal primacy?
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What became of the Queue hairstyle following the fall of the Qing dynasty? Was there any reason a non-Manchu might have got continuing to wear it?
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Milton Friedman severely injured Libertarianism and humanity by not promoting the Land Value Tax
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How often do different Chaos Space marine warbands fuse together to remain viable?
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Did Stuprum really exist as a serious legal and religious principle for the Romans?
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