Fergal Schmudlach
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Landback in Eurasia, 622 CE: As-Sulamī, Zhuangzi, Qohelet
🕑 Added 2023-07-19 05:17:02 +0000 UTCHow does an Indigenous-led movement rebuild in the wake of imperial decline? With the spectacular collapse of both Sassanian Persia and Byzantime Rome in 622 CE, a certain revolutionary communal movement led by masses of nomadic herders, merchants, and farmers, provides us with one of the greatest and earliest examples, albeit one poorly attested in surviving contemporaneous sources. We turn to recent historical-critical scholarship on the birth of this movement (often quite tendentious in ways we’re not so interested in) for hints about its genesis and growth. To keep me from perfectionism in the face of this daunting topic and to perform the conditions of pure orality in which this movement would have begun and spread, I record while walking through a midsummer Japanese mountain forest.
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Fergal Schmudlach
Yeah, what was I thinking of? There was something related to Imperial Japan that either you or Jimmy covered and I couldn't remember which. shows you the state of my aural memory anyway. It's very encouraging to hear you dug it!
The Return Of The Repressed
What an excellent episode to listen to whilst riding the train through Nagano! Thanks for the confused shoutout and your take on the eurovision European name made me laugh, as did some other insights about the country which i am getting adjusted to through your work in the best way possible!
