Category Archives: Books

Back to Ohio

With the travelling I’ve not had much chance to write about my own work recently, and have largely been using this blog as an information service. I have been working on the book during and around the travel, and there will … Continue reading →

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Chapter Three

Chapter Three is the first of a number of chapters on the period known as the ‘Middle Ages’. I’m uneasy with that label, as are most of the people who work on the times between the sack of Rome in … Continue reading →

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Chapter Two

Chapter Two didn’t take all that much work to get to the stage I want it to be at for this draft. It’s not that long since I worked on it, and when I did I knew what I was … Continue reading →

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Foucault, Territory, etc.

Over at Philosophy in a Time of Error, Peter Gratton responds to my update on Chapter One from a couple of days ago. Peter mentions the piece I published on Foucault’s ‘Society Must Be Defended’ back in 2002. That piece, … Continue reading →

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Chapter One

Chapter One is now in pretty good shape. The issue of word length has meant that I’ve been fairly minimal in terms of what I have added. The chapter begins with readings of Greek myths of autochthony, drawing on a … Continue reading →

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Irnerius

In the talk today I will use this image for the first time. It was one I stumbled upon in a book about Philipp Melanchthon (briefly mentioned here). To date this is the best version I have – a scan from the … Continue reading →

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University of Washington seminar

Tomorrow I give my first talk of this North America trip, at the University of Washington. Details here. There will be an informal lunch with postgraduates first, discussing the ‘Land, Terrain, Territory’ paper forthcoming in Progress in Human Geography. Although … Continue reading →

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Seattle and the Greeks

Now in Seattle, at University of Washington. Slowly getting the infrastructure of life and work established, but dealing badly with West-coast jetlag. To be honest part of me is glad to be out of the UK as the comprehensive spending … Continue reading →

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The importance of small details

As last week’s update on the book said, there were lots of minor things that I wanted to get resolved before I left London. Most of these presented relatively few problems. A few though caused me considerably more work. With Vitoria … Continue reading →

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The Birth of Territory contents

This is the proposed contents for The Birth of Territory…

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