Category Archives: history

Cromwell in Ireland

Posted on 2015/01/10 by

/ History / 1950s in college pk fell in love with the poetry of John Donne. That love bumped into a series of prides of pk’s concerning pk’s deliberate ignorance of “history”. If you love Shakespeare, as who doesn’t, you … Continue reading →

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Civil Feud

Posted on 2014/10/26 by

/ History / Re: Hatfield–McCoy feud I’m writing about this as I learn it. The Civil War, which states were which in the 1860s is not my forte but the main thing relevant is my ancient forte: who has jurisdiction: … Continue reading →

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Irish Trouble

Posted on 2014/10/12 by

/ History / First, the target: start with the end, then read the beginning. In a word: the English crushed the Irish —out of fear of the Spanish! (This fear was not a hallucination.) Once the English learned the habit … Continue reading →

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Nevsky the Rus

Posted on 2014/04/18 by

/ History / The word “history” is ambiguous in a way seldom worried about: do we mean “what happened”? what actually happened? that is, “facts”? Or do we mean “what we say happened”? humans notoriously poor record keepers where politics, … Continue reading →

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Man Over God

Posted on 2013/12/09 by

Recreating (and advancing) pk’s censored domains: Knatz.com / Teaching / Scholarship / History / The Inquisitor General in Goya’s Ghosts, creepily played by Michael Lonsdale, truthfully (for a change) declares that the French Revolution, Napoleon and his damn French armies … Continue reading →

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On History

Posted on 2013/06/25 by

Recreating (and advancing) pk’s censored domains: Macroinformation.org & Knatz.com / Teaching / Society / Social Epistemology / Abstractions / @ K. 1998 History as Stories We Tell History and myth are distinct at their centers; their borders are very broad … Continue reading →

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From Church to University

Posted on 2013/03/30 by

Don’t forget: churches are older than universities. Churches worshipped the God, formed monasteries to keep and copy holy writ, perpetuating and rationalizing the mis-copyings, there being no original manuscript to correct from (who knows if there ever had been, the … Continue reading →

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