One advantage of being an LRC writer is the educated and liberty-loving readership that will provide feedback on one’s musings. Indeed, Norwich on Byzantium has proven illuminating, even if (abridged) Norwich does not spend much time on the economy of Byzantium. Another suggestion to read Henri Pirenne was taken up tangentially, as it turns out that Jane Jacobs is Pirenne, digested. One seeks these sources in an effort to understand that period when the Catholic Church overcame an empire, when Islam rose to prominence, and when the modern city rose from the feudal society that surrounded it in the West. … Continue reading The Easy Conquest