More specifically concerning: Engels
The Historicity of Peasants
14 March 2003, around 9.01.
Have been reading Michael Rostovtzeff’s A Large Estate in Egypt in the Third Century B.C. A Study in Economic History (Madison, WI: 1922), a short book in which the notorious Russian historian gives the Zenon archive his attention. Of course, in 1922 the Zenon archive, with early Ptolemaic documents numbering in the thousands, was bigger […]
tragedy of the commonplaces
4 September 2025, around 11.07.
It’s the season when academics seek to snatch inspiration from the jaws of administrative despair by posting online the more promising tasks they intend to assign their students, and one that sparked my interest was keeping a physical commonplace book (giving credit while appropriating [the modifications seem too few to call it adapting] an assignment […]