Byzantine
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Byzantine is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between August 30, 2024 and September 24, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “a treatise on the Devil by Psellus, a Byzantine author”; “Described aspect of Byzantine military doctrine”. It most often appears alongside 38 Onslow Gardens, A Collection Of Unmitigated Pedantry, A Memoir of the Right Hon. William Edward Hartpole Lecky By His Wife.
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- Category: Concepts
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: August 30, 2024
- Last seen: September 24, 2024
Appears In
- Your Book Review: The History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe
- How Often Do Men Think About Rome?
Related Pages
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- 38 Onslow Gardens (1 shared issues)
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- A Collection Of Unmitigated Pedantry (1 shared issues)
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- A Memoir of the Right Hon. William Edward Hartpole Lecky By His Wife (1 shared issues)
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- ACOU (1 shared issues)
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- ACOUP (1 shared issues)
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- ACX Survey Results (1 shared issues)
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- Age of Empires 2 (1 shared issues)
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- Agobard (1 shared issues)
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- Alps (1 shared issues)
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- American Civil War (1 shared issues)
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- Anki (1 shared issues)
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- Ares (1 shared issues)
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Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
He graduated in 1859. Having inherited the family’s lands by this time, he was under no obligation to work, and, as he later wrote, “For four or five very happy years after I left college I lived in almost complete solitude and in pure thought.” He traveled all over Europe, holing up in libraries, and reading obscure tomes, e.g., “I have been gathering together a large and rare library of old Latin and French books on witchcraft…I am waiting with great impatience for a treatise on the Devil by Psellus, a Byzantine author of the eleventh century, having got which, I mean to go to a little village in the mountains [the Pyrenees] till I have mastered it.” Already a thinker, but in dread of being considered an idler, Lecky decided to become an author.
There’s a Twitter meme on how men constantly think about the Roman Empire. Some feminist friends objected that women think about Rome a lot too. To settle the matter, I included a question about this on this year’s ACX survey, “Have you thought about the Roman Empire in the past 24 hours?” (the Byzantine Empire also counted). Here are responses from 607 cis women and 4,925 cis men:
Inline links: settle, this year’s ACX survey
Described aspect of Byzantine military doctrine to my girlfriend.