https://www.erikhildinger.com/blog daily 0.75 2024-10-18 https://www.erikhildinger.com/blog/numeri-milites-cunei-what-sort-of-roman-soldiers-were-these monthly 0.5 2024-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b63d524c219a6cdb9281ad/ab2a438e-1a4c-428c-bcf4-4c5c3295a475/Notitia_Dignitatum_-_Dux_Pannoniae_primae_et_Norici_ripensis.jpg Blog - Numeri, Milites, Cunei: What Sort of Roman Soldiers were These? - Make it stand out A page from the Notitia Dignitatum, an Roman ancient source for, among other things, troop names and dispositions. Source: Wikimedia Commons. https://www.erikhildinger.com/blog/ive-got-a-little-listnbsp-the-notitia-dignitatum monthly 0.5 2024-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b63d524c219a6cdb9281ad/60b24d07-0445-4bf6-b116-b5058409ea4c/Notitia+Shields.jpg Blog - I’ve Got a Little List:  the Notitia Dignitatum - Make it stand out Shield Patterns from the Notitia Dignitatum. Source: Bodleian Library https://www.erikhildinger.com/blog/when-did-the-roman-empire-lose-britain-later-than-many-think monthly 0.5 2024-10-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b63d524c219a6cdb9281ad/d4ce343b-95ef-4fe9-972d-48e710514804/ComesBritaniae.jpg Blog - When Did the Roman Empire Lose Britain? Later than Many Think? - Make it stand out Page from the Notitia Dignitatum with the symbols of the Comes Britanniarum. Bodleian Manuscript. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b63d524c219a6cdb9281ad/1d146c73-b7a4-429c-9243-070cf5cb9656/Quirinius+Cover.png Blog - When Did the Roman Empire Lose Britain? Later than Many Think? - Make it stand out A fictional treatment of events in Post-Roman Britain. https://www.erikhildinger.com/blog/have-we-found-a-quinquereme-and-will-this-help-us-with-the-enormous-fleet-and-crew-numbers-in-polybius monthly 0.5 2024-10-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b63d524c219a6cdb9281ad/6e1648f9-9242-41a1-8342-a045d20fd93c/Pompeii+Galleys.png Blog - Have We Found a Quinquereme? And will it Help Us with the Enormous Fleet and Crew Numbers in Polybius? - Make it stand out Galleys from a fresco found in Pompeii. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b63d524c219a6cdb9281ad/18cd59e9-ceef-4f2d-a922-4aa9234b356a/Screen+Shot+2022-11-04+at+10.19.44+AM.png Blog - Have We Found a Quinquereme? And will it Help Us with the Enormous Fleet and Crew Numbers in Polybius? - Make it stand out Image adapted from Rodgers, Greek and Roman Naval Warfare; a Study of Strategy, Tactics, and Ship Design from Salamis (480 B. C.) to Actium (31 B. C.), United States Naval Institute, Annapolis: 1937, page 307. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b63d524c219a6cdb9281ad/2e924053-ceb6-4ece-923d-7144d691078a/Punic+Ship+Table.jpg Blog - Have We Found a Quinquereme? And will it Help Us with the Enormous Fleet and Crew Numbers in Polybius? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b63d524c219a6cdb9281ad/f5aae841-9748-4eba-89f7-0a89e1e48ebb/Fortuna+Cover.png Blog - Have We Found a Quinquereme? And will it Help Us with the Enormous Fleet and Crew Numbers in Polybius? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.erikhildinger.com/blog/what-is-the-evidence-for-an-historical-king-arthur monthly 0.5 2022-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b63d524c219a6cdb9281ad/65fb8c9a-cd42-4d6a-a4f1-5c4ed459840c/Book+Cover.png Blog - What is the Evidence for an Historical (King) Arthur? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.erikhildinger.com/blog/a-remarkable-approach-to-the-matter-of-britain-howard-wisemans-then-arthur-fought monthly 0.5 2022-03-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b63d524c219a6cdb9281ad/a28147e9-55f2-4f9d-8048-b629f85d0273/Screen+Shot+2022-03-16+at+10.25.51+AM.png Blog - A Remarkable Approach to the Matter of Britain: Howard Wiseman’s Then Arthur Fought Wiseman has done a remarkable thing: he has taken the disparate materials of the Matter, the product of centuries— and of who knows how many hands (though Wiseman probably does)— and recast it into a coherent whole. By that, I mean that he has strung together information from historical documents, for example, those of Ammianus Marcellinus and Procopius, to account for the transition of Britain from a set of Roman provinces into an island of contending post-Roman kingdoms. This quasi-history continues with later sources of varying reliability or, arguably, no reliability, such as Geoffrey of Monmouth. (I expect some would argue that it’s an overstatement to say that Geoffrey is utter fiction, though this is beside the point.) All of these sources— and many, many more— are woven together into a coherent whole. Say what you will about the historicity of any part, it all hangs together. The coherence of Then Arthur Fought depends not only on the organization of the material, but on Wiseman’s conjectures to fill gaps where material is lacking, but here’s the thing: when Wiseman fills in a blank, he indicates this and justifies it in a footnote. In fact, the book is so heavily supported by citation— much like a scientific paper (Wiseman is a physicist)— that everything in the book can be traced to its source. Think about that; it’s remarkable, particularly when you consider the stunning number of sources. This support makes the book more than just interesting to read in its own right— it could be used as a compendium or source book for the Matter of Britain. Thus, readers can make sense of the Matter (by seeing it arranged in a coherent whole) more easily than they might if they read even a great number of the disparate texts which make up part of the Matter. https://www.erikhildinger.com/blog/was-late-roman-military-equipment-better monthly 0.5 2024-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b63d524c219a6cdb9281ad/61a4268c-11f1-4336-8346-9d80b537f58d/Roman_soldier_in_lorica_segmentata_1-cropped.jpg Blog - Was Late Roman Military Equipment Better? - Make it stand out A reenactor in armor of the Principate. 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Published by Hachette. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b63d524c219a6cdb9281ad/1624474674312-CXIMOTIL54QONU7HAVLS/Screen+Shot+2021-06-23+at+2.48.06+PM.png Home - The First Account of a European Traveller to the Court of the Mongol Khan: a translation from the Latin of Giovanni di Plano Carpini’s Historia Mongalorum Quos Nos Tartaros Appellamus, a thirteenth-century description of a journey to Mongolia and back and a report on the culture and military practices of a people who had recently ravaged central Europe. Published by Branden Books. https://www.erikhildinger.com/contact-me daily 0.75 2021-06-11