Games and Thrones The real history of the era portrayed in Gladiator II is much more interesting, tumultuous, and murderous than Scott’s simpleminded yarn. Charlotte Allen 4 Dec 2024 · 13 min read
Savage Entertainment A new version of Tinto Brass and Bob Guccione’s notorious 1979 film ‘Caligula’ provides a valuable record of one of the most fascinating disasters in cinema history. Jaspreet Singh Boparai 14 Nov 2024 · 30 min read
Two Wars, a Wedding, and a Funeral In the eleventh instalment of ‘The So-Called Dark Ages,’ Herbert Bushman describes the dramatic events preceding the death of Attila the Hun. Herbert Bushman 8 Aug 2024 · 12 min read
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. Herbert Bushman 5 Apr 2024 · 28 min read
Attila Invictus In the eighth instalment of ‘The So-Called Dark Ages,’ Herbert Bushman describes the Huns’ increasingly violent incursions into the Eastern half of the Roman Empire. Herbert Bushman 8 Mar 2024 · 19 min read
A Gathering of the Huns In the seventh instalment of ‘The So-Called Dark Ages,’ Herbert Bushman describes how disparate Hunnic tribes coalesced into the unified force that would terrorize Europe. Herbert Bushman 23 Jan 2024 · 16 min read
Merry Christmas, Little Wolf Christmas offers a chance to remind ourselves of the intellectual debt that our editors and writers owe to the Christian tradition. The Quillette Editorial Board 24 Dec 2023 · 7 min read
From out of the Steppes, a ‘Whirlwind of Nations’ In the sixth instalment of ‘The So-Called Dark Ages,’ Herbert Bushman describes the rise of the Huns, who struck terror into the hearts of Goths and Romans alike. Herbert Bushman 19 Dec 2023 · 21 min read
The Long Road to Aquitaine In the fifth instalment of ‘The So-Called Dark Ages,’ Herbert Bushman describes the conclusion to the Visigoths’ four-decade quest for a permanent homeland. Herbert Bushman 21 Nov 2023 · 13 min read
A Roman Trauma In the fourth instalment of ‘The So-Called Dark Ages,’ podcaster Herbert Bushman describes the Visigothic sack of Rome in 410 C.E. Herbert Bushman 1 Nov 2023 · 17 min read
King of the Goths In the third instalment of ‘The So-Called Dark Ages,’ podcaster Herbert Bushman describes the rise of Alaric I, whose Gothic armies roamed Greece and the Balkans before marching on Rome itself. Herbert Bushman 2 Oct 2023 · 20 min read
Huns to the North. Romans to the South In the second instalment of ‘The So-Called Dark Ages,’ podcaster Herbert Bushman describes the events that sparked the fateful Gothic invasion of the Roman Empire. Herbert Bushman 19 Sep 2023 · 25 min read
A Mummy by Any Other Name A century after the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb, curators bent on ‘decolonizing’ history have become needlessly skittish about the M-word. Steven Tucker 16 Feb 2023 · 15 min read
Progress and Polytheism: Could an Ethical West Exist Without Christianity? Christianity’s moral vision was not as revolutionary as a casual student of history might suppose. Nor did it equip Western society with a unique set of virtues that were unknown to the ancient world. Ben Bassett 23 Aug 2018 · 9 min read
What Ancient Cultures Teach us About Grief, Mourning and Continuity of Life The mourning traditions of earlier cultures prescribed precise patterns of behavior that facilitated the public expression of grief and provided support for the bereaved. Daniel Wojcik and Robert Dobler 11 Dec 2017 · 5 min read
