I am doubly pleased, as I had not written anything in Italian for a while. I don't think this book will be available online, but I would be happy to share the PDF of my work with any interested colleagues.

My chapter is titled "Il re pastore e il concilio: echi costantiniani nell'Italia longobarda." In it, I took the opportunity to elaborate on the contribution of the Constantinian model of the shepherd-king to the institutional development of the Lombard kingdom in early medieval Italy.

I have more articles in the works for Wiley's EAH, which will be published in future updates.

Finally, in the entry 'Gairethinx', I have especially sought to make the debate surrounding this subject -- largely shaped by German and Italian legal historiography -- better known to the international academic community.

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In 'Heretics, Roman legislation against', which covers the period from Constantine to Justinian, I have tried to touch, albeit concisely, on all the most relevant facets of this vast and important subject.

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All these entries are on subjects especially dear to me. In particular, I have thought for many years that there was a need for a fresh outline of the 'Nomos empsychos', and I'm glad the Editors gave me the opportunity to provide exactly that.

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...what remains, in my opinion, an understudied and misunderstood subject, long affected by a scholarly bias that has sought to diminish the relevance of any portrayal of emperors and kings that blurred the line between imperium and sacerdotium.

I hope this study will contribute to a better understanding of the role of the pastoral metaphor in the characterization of Christian kingship more generally...

I have previously also written about #TLoU2 (the video game), specifically about its portrayal of violence and torture: www.ordines.it/wp-content/u...

But it was at Berkeley, you're supposed to be impressed.

With 'AI', they've come up with some surface-level utility, but they don't seem to actually need a good idea or strategy.

I mean, look at how much money Meta spent on the Metaverse, which was clearly a ludicrous idea. Tech companies have been where the money and power lie, for some time, so they are merely trying to perpetuate and augment themselves...