This is Part IV of our four-and-three-quarters part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, interlude) on the Fremen Mirage. We began by sketching out the basic outline of this pop theory of history: that a lac…
Collections: The Fremen Mirage Part IIIa: …by the Princess Irulan
This is Part IIIa of our four-part series (I, II) looking at what I’ve termed the ‘Fremen Mirage.’ We defined the core tenets of this pop-historical notion in more detail in the f…
Collections: The Fremen Mirage, Part I: War at the Dawn of Civilization
This week’s post is the first in a four part series (II, IIIa, IIIb, interlude, IV) looking at what I’m going to term the Fremen Mirage (a play on Le Mirage Spartiate, which we’ve…
Collections: The Fremen Mirage, Part IIIb: Myths of the Atreides
This is Part IIIb of our four-and-three-quarters part series (I, II, IIIa) on what we’re calling the Fremen Mirage. Last week, we traced the origins of this idea in the Greek and Roman ethnog…
Collections: The Fremen Mirage, Part II: Water Spilled on the Sand
This is part II of our four-part series (I, IIIa, IIIb, interlude, IV) looking at what I’ve termed ‘the Fremen mirage,’ after the fiction people from the science fiction novel Dun…
Collections: The Fremen Mirage, Interlude: Ways of the Fremen
This week we’re breaking out of the main series of posts on the Fremen Mirage (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) to answer a brewing discussion that has been running in the comments: does Dune exist within …
The Climate of History: Four Theses on JSTOR
Dipesh Chakrabarty , The Climate of History: Four Theses, Critical Inquiry, Vol. 35, No. 2 (Winter 2009), pp. 197-222
Collections: Warfare in Dune, Part II: The Fremen Jihad
This is the second part (I, II) of our somewhat silly look about the plausibility of warfare in Frank Herbert’s Dune. Last week, we looked at the system of warfare that is dominant in the set…
Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IIIa: Family Formation
This is the first part of the third part of our series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc, IVd,IVe, V) discussing the patterns of life of the pre-modern peasants who made up the great majority of al…
Sécheresse : « Notre principal défi est d’abord de renoncer à l’illusion de l’abondance de l’eau »
Face au changement de régime hydroclimatique, nos systèmes de répartition de l’eau ne sont plus adaptés, affirme, dans un entretien au « Monde », la géographe Sara Fernandez. Selon elle, il est urgent d’interroger collectivement l’utilité des usages et leur capacité à aggraver ou à atténuer les effets des phénomènes extrêmes.
Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part II: Starting at the End
This is the second part of our series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc, IVd,IVe, V) discussing the basic contours of life – birth, marriage, labor, subsistence, death – of pre-modern p…
Trajectoires #14 : En cheminant avec Kakeya, Vincent Borrelli et Jean Luc Rullière | Trajectoires
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L’histoire par les textes - APHG
Antiquité Moyen Âge Période moderne Période contemporaine Thèmes transversaux Historiographie Liens utiles N.B. Les documents portant sur les séquences intermédiaires entre plusieurs ères (antiquité tardive, transition Moyen Âge / première modernité, période révolutionnaire) peuvent se trouver dans les deux pages concernées. Principes du projet et avertissements Pour valoriser et partager ces efforts conséquents, cette page […]
Legends of the Ancient Web
This is the text version of a talk I gave on May 24, 2017, at the Front Trends conference in Warsaw.
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Crusader Kings III, Part IV: Emperors, Soldiers and Peasants
This is the last part of a four part series (I, IIa, IIb, III, IV) examining the historical assumptions behind the popular medieval grand strategy game Crusader Kings III, made by Paradox Interacti…
Collections: Warfare in Dune, Part I: Fighting Faufreluches
This week, time for something a bit silly: we’re going to think about the plausibility of the warfare in Frank Herbert’s Dune! In particular, I want to approach the question in two part…
