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The Venice time machine
- January 24, 2018
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No CommentsTo anyone interested in history this is a truly mind-bending project that has to be seen to be believed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQQGgYPRWfs https://www.ted.com/talks/frederic_kaplan_how_i_built_an_information_time_machine https://vtm.epfl.ch/page-109836-en.html '‘The Prologue', and chapters 1 and 2 of 'Casanova in Paris: The Shadows of the King' are now freely available here. 6 long form articles on Casanova's life and times are freely -
‘The Case of the Closely Watched Courtesans’
- January 6, 2018
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Fascinating review article on the relationship between the state and elite prostitutes in eighteenth-century Paris: ‘The Case of the Closely Watched Courtesans’. The painting above, which was chosen to illustrate the article, was a portrait of Marie-Louis O’Morphy, supposedly commissioned by Casanova. O’Morphy, who was to become one of Louis XV’s favourites, was discovered -
The successor problem
- December 20, 2017
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From the Emperor Augustus to the Emperor Napoleon one of the biggest challenges to the stability and prosperity of any state was to ensure a peaceful succession. Transition from one ruler to the next was often a time fraught with danger. If an incumbent ruler had no clear successor then both domestic and foreign competitors
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