Tag: books
-
Problems with Beowulf
The Forgery Hypothesis: Henry VIII, Protestant Legitimacy, Unemployed Monks and a Culture of Fabrication Beowulf in the Canon of English Literature Beowulf is supposedly an early medieval text written in the Anglo-Saxon language, which is often – though wrongly – called Early English. It is not, as will become clear by the end of this article.…
-
The Ancient World’s First Maritime Trade Network
Today’s commercial shipping networks are many and complex and have evolved over centuries. In the last 50 years they have exploded in volume and extent, shifting eastwards at considerable pace. But what was the world’s first sustained shipping network? Economic Powerhouse of the Ancient World It was undoubtedly the one emanating from northwest India’s Indus-Sarasvati…
-
Phoenicians: Saviours of Civilisation
In Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond asked how much effect geography had on ‘history’s broad pattern’. He concluded that all societies had inventive people but some environments provide more starting materials and favourable conditions. He concentrated on domestication and the axis of the continents. I contend that ports were the favourable conditions that continued…
Nick Collins 