Records

Every institution that has ever held power has also held the record of that power and made decisions about what that record would say. The Church, the guilds, the fraternal orders, the financial systems, the calendars that were reformed and the timelines that were compressed. This category examines the keepers—and what they chose to do with what they held.

CERNunnos: The God Who Sits Between Worlds

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In 1710, workers excavating beneath the choir of Notre-Dame de Paris found a stone pillar broken into blocks, reused as rubble in a late...

St Benedict of Nursia: The Man Who Wrote the West

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The medal fits in a closed fist. On its front, a haloed figure in monastic robes holds a cross in one hand and a...

Iran and the Caucasians

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Caucasian. The word sits on government forms, medical records, and census documents across the English-speaking world. Most people who tick that box have never...

Hubal: The God Who Travelled to the Cube

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The city of Hit sits on the western bank of the Euphrates, in what is now modern Iraq, roughly a hundred and fifty kilometres...

St George: The Last Stand Before the Dragon

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The image is one of the most reproduced in Western art: a white horse rearing, an armoured saint with lance angled downward, beneath the...
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