Here I’m continuing to muse on Richard Fletcher’s thought-provoking list of questions for an informal agenda for understanding conversion in The Barbarian Conversion: From Paganism to Christianity. I find his…
Read moreLots of disciplines wrestle with understanding the diffusion of ideas, technologies, products and so on. I find browsing the work of archaeologists, economists, historians and others a fruitful source of…
Read moreBack to the issue of food on the move. Here are some general observations about the origin and diffusion of dishes. Independent invention versus diffusion The case of North African…
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