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Hot-Take: Temple to Constantine's Family in Spello, Italy
This morning, I began receiving several excited and perplexed messages about an apparent discovery of a temple dedicated to Constantine's...
Jan 8, 20242 min read


The 'Constantinian Question'
I am happy to return to this blog after focusing mostly on the completion of my book, Power and Rhetoric in the Ecclesiastical...
Jul 15, 20228 min read


History and Generational Trauma
September 11 is always a sobering day on the calendar for me. You know the litany of epochal events that define a generation in this...
Sep 11, 20206 min read
Accomplishments of the Past Year
Unfortunately, this blog has been inactive for nearly a year. However, this can be explained by the amount of work I've accomplished in...
Aug 13, 20204 min read
Historical Revisionism: Some Thoughts
This past week, my review of Jesse Hoover’s study of apocalyptic thinking among the Donatists was published in Ancient Jew Review. For...
Sep 1, 20193 min read
The Emperor's Bane: Ecclesiastical Conflict under Aurelian and Constantine
A considerable amount of broader reading related to my research introduced me to a number of fascinating historical people and stories. I...
Jun 11, 20196 min read
All That You Can't Leave Behind
Early medieval historian Chris Wickham wrote against the tendency to study or write history in terms of ‘teleology’. This kind of...
May 21, 20194 min read
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