Under Attila’s Gaze

In the ninth instalment of ‘The So-Called Dark Ages,’ Herbert Bushman describes a Roman diplomat’s famous fifth-century journey into the heart of Hunnic territory.

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5 Apr 2024 · 28 min read

Feast of Attila, by Hungarian painter Mór Than (1828–99). Priscus of Priam is depicted in the bottom right corner, sitting alongside the older Maximinus. Onegesius, in grey hair and beard, appears at the foot of Attila’s throne. The child with Attila is his youngest son, Ernac.

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Iona Italia talks to cultural evolutionary theorist Michael Muthukrishna, author of ‘A Theory of Everyone,’ about the human dual inheritance—part inherited, part taught—and about how energy availability underpins everything.

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Our experience of the world is increasingly mediated by digital technology. This is stripping us of our sense that the physical landscape is infused with meaning.