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On Guillotines, Monarchy, and the American Right

François Furet, his reading of the French Revolution, and the use of authoritarian political discourse by the US political right.

Jun 14, 2021

Book on French Revolution next to gallows at US Capitol from January 6 insurrection.

Jun 14, 2021

Trump, Charlemagne, and Nostalgia

Donald Trump is a lot like Charlemagne (the great medieval emperor), just not in the ways that one might think. Instead, the comparison has…

Feb 2, 2017

Trump, Charlemagne, and Nostalgia

Feb 2, 2017

Donald Trump, Twitter, and the Rapid-Fire Sales Technique

Although President Obama was the first “Twitter President,” Donald Trump’s use of the medium is different from almost anything else we’ve…

Jan 24, 2017

Donald Trump, Twitter, and the Rapid-Fire Sales Technique

Jan 24, 2017

What is religion?

Medieval Heresy/ Modern Islamophobia

Dec 18, 2015

What is religion?

Dec 18, 2015

Video Games as Historiography

How do video games shape the ways we understand the past?

Nov 16, 2014

Video Games as Historiography

Nov 16, 2014

The Aims of an Education

Medieval Roots to the Modern University.

Oct 14, 2014

The Aims of an Education

Oct 14, 2014

Pope Francis’ “Call for War” was Actually a Call for Peace

The ancient roots of the papal use of force.

Aug 19, 2014

Pope Francis’ “Call for War” was Actually a Call for Peace

Aug 19, 2014

The Modern Medieval Archive

Curated links on the modern uses of the “medieval.”

Aug 15, 2014

The Modern Medieval Archive

Aug 15, 2014

On Mass Killings

Into the “Cultural Ether”

Nov 9, 2013

On Mass Killings

Nov 9, 2013

Matt Gabriele

Matt Gabriele

Prof & Dept Chair. medieval/ modern. nostalgia/ apocalypse. Wrote THE BRIGHT AGES (Harper, Dec 21). Neutral Good. See more profgabriele.com

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