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Ornate red and ivory wall decoration, with plaque and symbols

John Selden As An Early Modern Maccabee

Posted by: Nathan Dorn

We are in the midst of the Jewish festival of Hanukkah. Often known as “the Festival of Lights” in reference to the basic feature of its observance – the lighting of the eight-branched candelabra – Hanukkah commemorates the events surrounding the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem after a period of political oppression and forced …

Ornate red and ivory wall decoration, with plaque and symbols

Laws in a Crusader State

Posted by: Nathan Dorn

On November 27, 1095, Pope Urban II declared the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont. In so doing, he inaugurated a period of centuries of intense, though intermittent, warfare fought at the peripheries of Christendom. The Crusades exist in our historical memory as a period of near constant bloodshed and destruction, but out of the chaos …