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Today my book Cities of Strangers is published, without the rituals that usually follow https://t.co/8Wbl7Mkxgs
It was, therefore, a real pleasure to be invited by @ConversationUK to write about one of its strand which seems relevant:
https://t.co/uNmBAGm1Sx
@Medievalists
Excited to hear that my Cities of Strangers, the book which began with the Wiles Lectures @QUBelfast @medievalqub and which taught me much about citizenship and belonging - their attractions and limitations - in pre-modern Europe's cities. https://t.co/8Wbl7Mkxgs @Medievalists
A thread on stories @kathmandupost published last year which put the paper and its editor at odds with the Chinese embassy whose officials are probably not used to seeing critical news reports about China being printed in Nepali outlets.
The Pompeii Lakshmi was found by an Italian soldier in 1938, near the Casa dei Quattro stili, Pompeii - she is made of ivory & dated to the 1st century AD. She represents a deity from the Indian sub-continent and is evidence of the links between the #Roman Empire & #India.