[First posted in AWOL 23 November 2015, updated 6 February2026] This blog is a component of a research project initiated by Charles E. Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics

and Humanities, Pennsylvania State University Libraries. Part of a long standing interest in the history of the study of the Ancient Near East and Egypt, and of [...]

Silver Beyond Empire: The transition between late Roman and early medieval Europe Edited by Alice E. Blackwell, Fraser Hunter, Andreas Rau & Martin Goldberg Power and

prestige in Europe during the first millennium AD were predominantly expressed in two portable materials: silver and gold. [...]

Jonathan Gienapp, Stanford University, has posted two essays in which he responds to critics.  The first is The Constitution and Historical Rupture, which appeared in the

Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities: [...]

Departures This book, at its core, is a renouncement of a belief system: doctrinal legal approaches to ‘law and torture’ research and practice. At the same time, it is

articulation of new belief in disbelief: critique and the disciples of that disparate tradition. [...]

In a special report released on 15 December 2025, the ECA concluded that cooperation between the EPPO and OLAF is affected by inefficient information exchange and the European

Commission's oversight of repayments to the EU budget is insufficient. [...]