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Post by timoneill on Mar 27, 2009 6:38:49 GMT
Some of you may be interested to know that I've begun a new blog - Armarium Magnum - featuring reviews of books on ancient and medieval history and culture, as well as related subjects (the history of early science and technology, the origins of Christianity, the historical Jesus) and books that take my fancy ( the "new" atheism, scepticism, Jesus Mythers, the odd Neal Stephenson or Iain Banks novel etc). The latest review is of James J. O'Donnell's excellent The Ruin of the Roman Empire: A New History. Upcoming reviews in the next few weeks will be on Chris Wickham's The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages, 400-1000 and Charles Freeman's The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason. And some guy is publishing a book called God's Philosophers:How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science in August, so I'll probably be reviewing that too. Comments on, followers to, links to and subscriptions for my blog all welcome (I've already linked it to Quodlibeta, amongst other places). Cheers,
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Post by humphreyclarke on Mar 27, 2009 9:35:47 GMT
Great stuff. I ploughed through your first few reviews this morning and look forward to reading more. I find in general that reviews are an excellent way of getting into a topic and familiarising yourself with the arguments that are going on in the subject.
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Post by timoneill on Apr 5, 2009 3:27:49 GMT
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Post by humphreyclarke on Apr 5, 2009 8:09:42 GMT
Great. I was looking at buying 'The Inheritance of Rome' the other day so I will read with interest.
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Post by timoneill on Apr 5, 2009 10:43:26 GMT
Great. I was looking at buying 'The Inheritance of Rome' the other day so I will read with interest. Feel free to buy via the Amazon links on my blog and garner me a whole 0.02 cents in the process. More importantly, feel free to publicise my blog. A friend of mine who is in the publishing game assures me that the more readers I have the more chances I have of convincing publishers to send me review copies for free. This will increase the number of reviews and ensure the books I review are new releases. But only if I can prove a strong readership. And James, a link on the Quodlibeta blog would be nice, considering I have already promised to buy your book and to review it hot off the presses, that's only fair. And I have a prominent link to Quodlibeta on my blog already.
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Post by James Hannam on Apr 5, 2009 11:27:57 GMT
Tim, done. It's just a lack of time and a climbing frame my children want me to build that delays things.
Best wishes
James
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Post by timoneill on Apr 7, 2009 6:56:34 GMT
Tim, done. It's just a lack of time and a climbing frame my children want me to build that delays things. Thanks for the write up and the link. And I hope the climbing frame was a hit. Cheers,
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Post by James Hannam on Apr 9, 2009 8:50:11 GMT
Thanks for the write up and the link. And I hope the climbing frame was a hit. Cheers, And thank you for the note on your blog. I am looking forward to your review of Freeman. Best wishes James
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Post by timoneill on Apr 22, 2009 1:10:51 GMT
Readers of the Armarium Magnum blog might have noticed a name change (though not a URL change). This is because a kind commenter noted a fundamental grammatical error in the old title. I've made up for this by writing "Armarium Magnum" across the walls of Pontius Pilate's palace one hundred times in letters ten feet high and promising to never use an online Latin translation engine ever again. In other news, I'm still wading through Freeman but it might be a week or two before I finish it and the other reading I need to do before I review his book. I'll probably post a review of something else in the meantime.
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Post by humphreyclarke on Apr 22, 2009 6:00:17 GMT
I've made up for this by writing "Armarium Magnum" across the walls of Pontius Pilate's palace one hundred times in letters ten feet high and promising to never use an online Latin translation engine ever again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIAdHEwiAy8CENTURION: Now, write it out a hundred times. Tim O'Neil: Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. Hail Caesar, sir. CENTURION: Hail Caesar. If it's not done by sunrise, I'll cut your balls off. Tim O'Neil: Oh, thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. Hail Caesar and everything, sir! Oh. Mmm! Finished! ROMAN SOLDIER STIG: Right. Now don't do it again!. etc, etc...
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Post by timoneill on May 1, 2009 5:42:51 GMT
Well, I've finished Freeman's book and will begin working on the review over the weekend. I notice that R A Markus wrote a review of The Closing of the Western Mind in The Tablet back in 2002 (14 September edition). I can't find a copy of his review online anywhere and the website of The Tablet hasn't archived it. And it seems neither the Sydney University Library or the State Library of NSW subscribe to The Tablet (which is odd, because the University of Tasmania's library used to when I was a student). Does anyone know of a way I'd be able to get hold of copy?
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Post by eckadimmock on May 1, 2009 8:29:53 GMT
If you're in Sydney you could try the Australian Catholic University in North Sydney. Surely they'd subscribe!
Colin
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Post by timoneill on Jun 28, 2009 9:33:49 GMT
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Post by wraggy on Jun 28, 2009 10:41:46 GMT
Tim O'Neil,
the link that you have supplied is invalid. Can you edit and fix it please.
I am interested in the review.
Thanks, Wraggy.
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Post by timoneill on Jun 28, 2009 11:02:46 GMT
Tim O'Neil, the link that you have supplied is invalid. Can you edit and fix it please. I am interested in the review. Ooops - fixed. Thanks.
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