Lucas McMahon
@chrysoboullon.bsky.social
PhD Princeton. The logic and logistics of empire. Foreign affairs, information security, and digital spatial history. Byzantium, sometimes the Komnenoi. British Academy International Postdoctoral Fellow @ University of Exeter. 🇨🇦
You could also read www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
tl;dr: Byzantine advice to crusaders on routes being do as I say, don't do as I.
tl;dr: Byzantine advice to crusaders on routes being do as I say, don't do as I.
Avoiding Konya: How to go to the Holy Land in the Twelfth Century
How Byzantine armies reached Syria in the twelfth century has attracted much less attention than the long and arduous journeys made by European crusaders. While they had less distance to cover, muc...
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December 2, 2025 at 11:11 AM
You could also read www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
tl;dr: Byzantine advice to crusaders on routes being do as I say, don't do as I.
tl;dr: Byzantine advice to crusaders on routes being do as I say, don't do as I.
At every Byzantinist Event we have a moment of reflection for our colleagues who fell into error and now study the west.
December 2, 2025 at 11:07 AM
At every Byzantinist Event we have a moment of reflection for our colleagues who fell into error and now study the west.
I'm curious about where the bigotry and anger on the internet starts and where it ends. As a Canadian in the UK, every time I walk into a grocery store I am consistently shocked by the rack of newspapers where half of them have "evil foreigners!" as the cover story, every. single. day.
October 29, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I'm curious about where the bigotry and anger on the internet starts and where it ends. As a Canadian in the UK, every time I walk into a grocery store I am consistently shocked by the rack of newspapers where half of them have "evil foreigners!" as the cover story, every. single. day.
I don't want to get your hopes up, but the rest of it is just as good.
www.libraryofarabicliterature.org/books/978147...
www.libraryofarabicliterature.org/books/978147...
A Physician on the Nile
Flora, fauna, and famine in thirteenth-century Egypt A Physician on the Nile begins as a description of everyday life in Egypt at the turn of the seventh/thi...
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October 28, 2025 at 10:42 AM
I don't want to get your hopes up, but the rest of it is just as good.
www.libraryofarabicliterature.org/books/978147...
www.libraryofarabicliterature.org/books/978147...
Not a thing, I'm afraid, but I don't really have anything to do with manuscripts.
October 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Not a thing, I'm afraid, but I don't really have anything to do with manuscripts.
Just some reckless adventurism in the hemisphere... would sleep a lot better if we had a couple of SSBNs out there.
October 5, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Just some reckless adventurism in the hemisphere... would sleep a lot better if we had a couple of SSBNs out there.
Anything with annona in the title definitely piques my interest.
October 4, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Anything with annona in the title definitely piques my interest.
Who ever said that nothing is made in America anymore? The wackadoodle industry is going strong, cranking out new models ever other day, it seems.
October 4, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Who ever said that nothing is made in America anymore? The wackadoodle industry is going strong, cranking out new models ever other day, it seems.
An excellent thing to read while I procrastinate actually reading the Byzantine land surveying manuals that I promised I would read.
September 21, 2025 at 3:46 PM
An excellent thing to read while I procrastinate actually reading the Byzantine land surveying manuals that I promised I would read.