Okay internet, please don't search for me—I've been looking and will keep looking—but do you happen to have a great *medievalist's take* on Kropotkin's sense of medieval free cities just lying around?
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Okay internet, please don't search for me—I've been looking and will keep looking—but do you happen to have a great *medievalist's take* on Kropotkin's sense of medieval free cities just lying around?
(I love PK and always will, I'm just permacurious.)
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@kissane Think I see where your brain is going, and just going to hang in here until you get to the Hanseatic League.
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@jcalpickard SHARK MUSIC PLAYS
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@kissane not Kropotkin, but if you’re looking into that chunk of history I quite enjoyed “The Sovereign State and Its Competitors” by Hendrik Spruyt; my review doesn’t mention Fedi but it might as well have:
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@luis_in_brief Oooo tx
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jonny (good kind)replied to Erin Kissane last edited by
@kissane weirdly i actually am pals via mutual love of cryptids with a classicist who hangs out with medievalists and anarchists and i shall message them this question
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@kissane you might get some reading from Ada Palmer, whose Ex Urbe blog is full of the sense of chaos eg https://www.exurbe.com/machiavelli-s-p-q-f/
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Erin Kissanereplied to jonny (good kind) last edited by
@jonny this is an extremely good bit of internetting, thank you
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@kissane also, medievalists are clustering on bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/profgabriele.com/post/3l6uhaunlvr2n
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@KevinMarks I actually got a good answer and reading recs there from a friend-of-a-friend chain but I’m still hoping someone has actually written an analysis I can point to
