• Who needs advice?

    Margaret Mullett investigates advice literature from Byzantine texts to modern self-help culture.

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Forging Late Roman Italy

by Jeroen Wijnendaele (This text incorporates my introduction for the book launch of Late Roman Italy at Hamburg’s RomanIslam centre – 21.11.2023) Fergus Millar once claimed that “Italy under the Empire has no history.” He meant that it had no…