PAGANISM AND THE WESTERN EMPIRE

Western Europe after the Fall of the Western Roman Empire

By the time it had reached its zenith during the second-century of the Common Era, the Roman Empire had developed into one of the greatest civilizations the ancient world had ever known. Cities scattered across an imperial region that stretched from the North Sea to the Red Sea had flourished under a well-ordered governing body housed in Rome. These regional centers stood unfortified in the cou...

Disease, medicine and empire: perspectives on Western medicine and the experience of European expansion

spacing and limiting of births as the means the lower classes adopted to approach some of the advantages enjoyed by the more prosperous. In line with recent analyses of the contribution of nutrition to increased longevity, Smith argues that better nutrition, the most consistent benefit of smaller families, increased natural resistance to TB among children of the poor. Although Smith does not ma...

Globish and the empire.

Empire, Islam and the postcolonial

Globalisation, Empire, and the Vampire

In his paper, "Globalisation, Empire, and the Vampire," Mario Vrbančić opens up the question of the possibility of a dialectical utopian thinking in postmodernism. Following Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, Vrbančić analyses the vampire as the nation looking both at Hardt and Negri's theory of Empire and Žižek psychoanalytically inclined theory of nationalist identification. The vampire always o...