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  • coeliacmccarthy [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Crisis of the Third Century shit. Praetorian coups and assassinations, military/intelligence infighting leading to incipient state fragmentation, cults and chaos and decline, the first real throes of transitional crisis. Except this time the Praetorian Guard are all addicted to the coke they're supposed to be selling for the CIA

    • Nakoichi [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      And its all accelerated because of global instant communication

    • duderium [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      The transition of the slave imperial mercantile Roman Empire into feudalism which only began to collapse a thousand years later in the crisis of the 14th century. I’m reading “A Distant Mirror,” which is about the latter crisis. Do you have any book recommendations for the crisis of the 3rd century?