Heraclius Saves The Day – Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Chapter 46 Part 2
Maurice was on the way to putting the empire back on its feet, but was overthrown by a usurper. Heraclius deposed him and got things back on course.
Return the Marbles
I’m not a fan of the British Conservative Party on the whole. But most long established organisations have both good and bad in their history, and the Tories have had their moments that command respect. And certainly as a body of people they aren’t uniformly bad. It is unfortunate that right at the moment they seem to be fielding not so much their B team but more a group of chancers that would normally have been shown the door long ago.
Pedant’s Revolt – I am banned from Twitter
My psycho drama with Twitter continues as I have now been banned from the platform. I think it is a temporary thing, but it is a bit hard to say as the appeal button doesn’t work.
Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Chapter 45 Part 1 – Rosamund
Chapter 45 which has the title state of Italy under the Lombards. In fact it covers several other important topics which will require our attention and the action opens in Constantinople where the death of Justinian was announced to a city where nobody much under 50 would have had any memory of regime change.