“Aztec peasants, Babylonian shepherds, Athenian stonemasons, and Carolingian merchants spoke different languages,2 wore different clothing, and prayed to different deities, but they all ate the same amount of food, lived the same number of years, traveled no farther—or faster—from their… — William Rosen Copy Share Image
“The Greek word for kernel is karys, so the word used to describe creatures without a nucleus is prokaryotic—the name, originally procariotique, was coined… — William Rosen Copy Share Image
“The European rabbit flea is so synchronized with its host that a female flea only gestates when living on a pregnant doe; when the… — William Rosen Copy Share Image
“Conservative estimates place the Persian casualties at some two thousand in less than twenty minutes, victims of the unforgiving geometry of the battlefield. Because… — William Rosen Copy Share Image
“Almost all modern legal practice is derived from one of two distinct traditions. The first, the so-called civil law tradition, is a direct successor… — William Rosen Copy Share Image
“The proximate causes of the Flemish “peasant” revolt were local and immediate; its roots, the reason it could occur in the first place, were… — William Rosen Copy Share Image
“And not merely slogan-shouting, but debate. The Chronicle of the courtier Theophanes faithfully records a debate—perhaps disputation is the better word—between Justinian (through his… — William Rosen Copy Share Image
“The Chronicle of Guillaume de Nangis, written by a monk at the Abbey of Saint-Denis, records their start in the middle of April. Other… — William Rosen Copy Share Image
“A bishop in Gaul could anoint a novitiate with oil from the olive orchards of Greece, bless the event with wine from the vineyards… — William Rosen Copy Share Image
“Aztec peasants, Babylonian shepherds, Athenian stonemasons, and Carolingian merchants spoke different languages,2 wore different clothing, and prayed to different deities, but they all ate… — William Rosen Copy Share Image
“In 531, Tribonian authored a regulation that required that before any trial or hearing could begin, everyone, including litigants and officials, was obliged to… — William Rosen Copy Share Image
