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When fragmentation begets convergence – or medieval Europe for short
When there’s a road closure, you follow the deviation route.
Dec 5
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Dr Cristian Ispir
Medieval mistakes built modern science
We measure the medieval mind by its errors.
Dec 3
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Dr Cristian Ispir
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To block the sun
What Dante’s shadow says about embodied existence
Dec 1
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Dr Cristian Ispir
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November 2025
The flowering of the medieval meme
What the florilegium can tell us about ourselves
Nov 28
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Dr Cristian Ispir
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The question that doesn’t go anywhere, but does everything
The art of using rhetorical questions
Nov 26
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Dr Cristian Ispir
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Fire was not discovered, but invented
Fire existed long before humans walked the earth.
Nov 24
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Dr Cristian Ispir
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Click unshare on shared delusions
The little child didn’t think of psychological safety when she said the emperor didn’t have any clothes on.
Nov 21
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Dr Cristian Ispir
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Resilience has always been a verb
Crisis ideation is popular these days, though nobody likes to live through one.
Nov 19
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Dr Cristian Ispir
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Cones of premodern leadership
What if Europe’s rise to global power came not from Renaissance genius but from centuries of methodical knowledge transfer and leadership shadows…
Nov 17
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Dr Cristian Ispir
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When Arabic became Latin
The medieval practice of translating Arabic scholarship into Latin reveals something quite extraordinary
Nov 14
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Dr Cristian Ispir
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A revolution hiding in plain hindsight
The Gutenberg press and infrastructure fertility
Nov 12
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Dr Cristian Ispir
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The underrated town dilemma
Let’s say you live in a very obscure town in Europe, one that travel websites and blogs hardly ever mention, and most people hardly ever think about, or…
Nov 10
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Dr Cristian Ispir
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