Fred Jenkins’s Reviews > The World of Late Antiquity: CE 150-750 > Status Update
Fred Jenkins
is on page 165 of 240
Throughout the wars and the plague, Justinian's financial officers kept the money coming in--not by increasing the taxes, but by ensuring that the rich payed up promptly.
— Jun 11, 2026 07:56PM
3 likes · Like flag
Fred’s Previous Updates
Fred Jenkins
is on page 136 of 240
To be tacitly disliked by 98 per cent of one's fellow men is no mean stimulus to preserving one's identity as a ruling class.
— Jun 11, 2026 11:48AM
Fred Jenkins
is on page 78 of 240
When the young prince, Julian, visited it as a student, he found that philosophy had risen again all over Greece, like a periodic flooding of the Nile.
— Jun 10, 2026 04:26PM
