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Late Antiquity
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If nature abhors a vacuum, historiography loves a void because it can be filled with any number of plausible accounts;
Howe, Nicholas, Anglo-Saxon England and the postcolonial void
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― Postcolonial Approaches to the European Middle Ages: Translating Cultures
― Postcolonial Approaches to the European Middle Ages: Translating Cultures
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Whether well or not, I do not know. But know that you have cut off your right hand with your left. [A Roman Senator to Valentinian III after the latter had murdered the general Aetius.]
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― The Fragmentary History of Priscus: Attila, the Huns and the Roman Empire, AD 430-476
― The Fragmentary History of Priscus: Attila, the Huns and the Roman Empire, AD 430-476
