its been a while
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Its been a while since I made an entry here, and that's just fine, since no one ever reads this blog.
I have been reading lots lately, specifically about Genghis Khan and Attila the Hun.
My reading on the Huns is getting me more and more interested in Late Roman History.
I am particularly interested in the relationship between the imperium and the Church, how Christianity contributed to the fall of Rome, and perhaps how the institionalization of Christianity, making it THE state religion under Thodosius made the church secular and brought about the end of christian piety.
Of course, there is also the relationship between late antiquity and the successor medieval world. That interests me very deeply.
The other day, N and I watched
Luthera movie that is surprisingly about Martin Luther. In an interview the actress who played his wife was talking about preparing for the role and how very "modern" Katherine was, in that she was a very self-confident and independent woman, who worked and thought and led a life that is very similar to "modern" women. This brought up the question of what exactly does it mean to be "modern", as relates to the masses being controlled, either in our contemporary society by the elites of corporations or in the rennaissance or medieval times by the church and the aristocracy or in the ancient world by the empire.
It is arguable that "modernity" and its potential for upward mobility has its roots in the ancient world of the Greeks and Romans and that the entire time of Medieval Europe was just a step backward, and that our conceptions of "modernity" as pertains to how people perceive themselves in a cultural context is not all that different.
The man still exists, and he still beats us down, it is just big government and corporations doing the oppressing now, rather than kings and dukes and bishops.
N is so smart.
I <3 him.
a-ok
energetic
irritated