Was the American War of Independence a Mistake? @ApostolicMajesty

Was the American War of Independence a Mistake?

Apostolic Majesty 2021-03-18 | With:

AI Shire Tory: youtube.com/channel/UCEIcNn_K5eSE3uZ7DM1HW_A
Columba: twitter.com/Columba_1
Penrowe: youtube.com/channel/UCUpTGI88hH0uEJVJxZKgvYA
Peter Helland: youtube.com/user/peter52helland
Prudentialist: youtube.com/channel/UCDoiJEufoWOzn4G6iiKHI9w

Walt Disney: the Vulgar American Imagination & its European Critics

Apostolic Majesty 2026-09-19 | With Luca Johnson: https://x.com/Luca_Johnson96

Baudrillard, Jean, Glaser (trans.). Simulacra and Simulation. Ann Arbor, 1994.

Gabler, Neal. Walt Disney: the Triumph of the American Imagination. New York, 2006.

May, Jill P. “Walt Disney’s Interpretation of Children’s Literature.” Language Arts, vol. 58, no. 4, 1981, pp. 463–72.

Tolkien, J.R.R., Carpenter (eds.). The Letters of Tolkien. London, 1981.

Tolkien, J.R.R. Tree and Leaf. London, 1965.

Tracey Mollet. “‘With a Smile and a Song …’: Walt Disney and the Birth of the American Fairy Tale.” Marvels & Tales, vol. 27, no. 1, 2013, pp. 109–24.

Further Reading:

Barrier, J. Michael. The Animated Man: A Life of Walt Disney. Oakland, 2007.

Eco, Umberto. Travels in Hyperreality. London, 1986.

Mannheim, Steven. Walt Disney and the Quest for Community. Oxford, 2002.

The Legendary Charlemagne

Apostolic Majesty 2026-09-16 | Bulfinch, Thomas. The Legends of Charlemagne. Cambridge, 1862.

Christopher, Dawson. The Making of Europe: An Introduction to the History of European Unity. New York, 1956.

Einhard, Painter (trans.). The Life of Charlemagne. Toronto, 1960.

Fried, Johannes, Lewis (trans.). Charlemagne . London, 2016.

Nichols, Stephen G. “Signs of Royal Beauty Bright: Word and Image in the Legend of Charlemagne.” Olifant, vol. 4, no. 1, 1976, pp. 21–47.

Sayer, Dorothy (trans.). The Song of Roland. London, 1957.

Further Reading:

Bullough, D. A. “Europae Pater: Charlemagne and His Achievement in the Light of Recent Scholarship.” The English Historical Review, vol. 85, no. 334, 1970, pp. 59–105.

Ganshof, François L. “The Impact of Charlemagne on the Institutions of the Frankish Realm.” Speculum, vol. 40, no. 1, 1965, pp. 47–62.

LIU, YIN. “BAPTISMAL RENUNCIATION AND THE MORAL REFORM OF CHARLEMAGNE’S CHRISTIAN EMPIRE.” Traditio, vol. 76, 2021, pp. 117–55.

The Abolition of Roman Paganism

Apostolic Majesty 2026-09-12 | Brown, Peter. Authority and the Sacred: Aspects of the Christianisation of the Roman World. Cambridge, 1995.

Drake, H. A. “Intolerance, Religious Violence, and Political Legitimacy in Late Antiquity.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion, vol. 79, no. 1, 2011, pp. 193–235.

Gibbon, Edward, Lentin (eds.). Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. London, 1998.

O’DONNELL, JAMES J. “THE DEMISE OF PAGANISM.” Traditio, vol. 35, 1979, pp. 45–88.

Sheridan, James J. “THE ALTAR OF VICTORY — PAGANISM’S LAST BATTLE.” L’Antiquité Classique, vol. 35, no. 1, 1966, pp. 186–206.

Symmachi, Q. Aureli, Tener (trans.) Relatio III : Introduction, Translation and Notes. Chicago, 1917.

REMIJSEN, SOFIE. “THE END OF THE ANCIENT OLYMPICS AND OTHER CONTESTS: WHY THE AGONISTIC CIRCUIT COLLAPSED IN LATE ANTIQUITY.” The Journal of Hellenic Studies, vol. 135, 2015, pp. 147–64.

Further reading:

Brown, Peter. "Christianization and religious conflict". In Averil Cameron & Peter Garnsey (eds.). The Cambridge Ancient History XIII: The Late Empire, A.D. 337–425. Cambridge University Press. 1998. pp. 632–664

Salzman, Michele R. “‘Superstitio’ in the ‘Codex Theodosianus’ and the Persecution of Pagans.” Vigiliae Christianae, vol. 41, no. 2, 1987, pp. 172–88.

Vitiello, Massimiliano. “EMPEROR THEODOSIUS’ LIBERTY AND THE ROMAN PAST.” Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, vol. 108, 2015, pp. 571–620.

Adenauer: the Father of West Germany

Apostolic Majesty 2026-09-09 | ANTHON, CARL G. “ADENAUER’S OSTPOLITIK, 1955-1963.” World Affairs, vol. 139, no. 2, 1976, pp. 112–29.

Conradt, David. The German Polity. New York, 1978.

Dülffer, Jost. “‘No More Potsdam!’: Konrad Adenauer’s Nightmare and the Basis of His International Orientation.” German Politics & Society, vol. 25, no. 2 (83), 2007, pp. 19–42.

Merkl, Peter H. “THE LEGITIMIZING ROLE OF THE LEADER KONRAD ADENAUER, 1949-1976.” Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung, no. 21, 1982, pp. 12–26.

Miller, Russell A. “Germany’s Basic Law and the Use of Force.” Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, vol. 17, no. 2, 2010, pp. 197–206.

Mitchell, Maria. “Catholicism and Interconfessional Politics: The Catholic Church and the Christian Democratic Union.” Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte, vol. 19, no. 2, 2006, pp. 347–58.

Moeller, Robert G. “War Stories: The Search for a Usable Past in the Federal Republic of Germany.” The American Historical Review, vol. 101, no. 4, 1996, pp. 1008–48.

Schneider, Carl J. “Political Parties and the German Basic Law of 1949.” The Western Political Quarterly, vol. 10, no. 3, 1957, pp. 527–40.

Williams, Charles. Adenauer: Father of the New Germany. London, 2000.

The Limits of Oswald Spengler

Apostolic Majesty 2026-09-05 | Dawson, Christopher. Dynamics of World History. Mulloy, John., eds. La Salle, 1978.

Elton, Geoffrey. The Practise of History. Oxford, 2002.

Morley, Neville. “Decadence as a Theory of History.” New Literary History, vol. 35, no. 4, 2004, pp. 573–85.

Nash, Ronald. The Meaning of History . Nashville, 1998.

Spengler, Oswald. Decline of the West, London, 1926.

Wetters, Kirk. Demonic History: From Goethe to the Present. Northwestern University Press, 2014.

Further Reading:

Adorno, T.W. "Spengler Today". Studies in Philosophy and Social Science, Vol. 9, 1941. pp. 318-321.

Herce, Rubén. "Christopher Dawson on Spengler, Toynbee, Eliot and the Notion of Culture". Cultura 12.2, 2015, pp. 45-59.

Why was Poland-Lithuania Dismantled and the Ottoman Empire Spared? Europe’s Great Partitions

Apostolic Majesty 2026-09-02 | With Rupert: youtube.com/@rupertaugust2403

Serfdom to Serfdom. Russias Emancipation and Soviet Collectivization

Apostolic Majesty 2026-08-27 | Economakis, Evel. “Soviet Interpretations of Collectivization.” The Slavonic and East European Review, vol. 69, no. 2, 1991, pp. 257–81.

Hruska, Anne. “Love and Slavery: Serfdom, Emancipation, and Family in Tolstoy’s Fiction.” The Russian Review, vol. 66, no. 4, 2007, pp. 627–46.

Kolchin, Peter. “In Defense of Servitude: American Proslavery and Russian Proserfdom Arguments, 1760-1860.” The American Historical Review, vol. 85, no. 4, 1980, pp. 809–27.

Lenin, V, Christman (eds.). Essential Works. New York, 1943

Livi-Bacci, Massimo. “On the Human Costs of Collectivization in the Soviet Union.” Population and Development Review, vol. 19, no. 4, 1993, pp. 743–66.

McDonald, Tracy. “A Peasant Rebellion in Stalin’s Russia: The Pitelinskii Uprising, Riazan 1930.” Journal of Social History, vol. 35, no. 1, 2001, pp. 125–46.

Pearson, Thomas S. “The Origins of Alexander III’s Land Captains: A Reinterpretation.” Slavic Review, vol. 40, no. 3, 1981, pp. 384–403.

Raeff, Marc. “Russia after the Emancipation: Views of a Gentleman-Farmer.” The Slavonic and East European Review, vol. 29, no. 73, 1951, pp. 470–85.

Stalin, J.V. “A Year of Great Change: On the Occasion of the Twelfth Anniversary of the October Revolution.” Pravda, No. 259, November 7, 1929

Stanziani, Alessandro. “Second Serfdom and Wage Earners in European and Russian Thought from the Enlightenment to the Mid-Nineteenth Century.” Bondage: Labor and Rights in Eurasia from the Sixteenth to the Early Twentieth Centuries, 1st ed., Berghahn Books, 2018.

Tolstoy, Lev, Maude (trans.). Anna Karenina. London, 2010

The Legend of the Grand Inquisitor

Apostolic Majesty 2026-08-22 | With David Banica: https://x.com/DavidBanicaRO

Grand Inquisitor, 1975 (Shakespeare Network): youtube.com/watch?v=QxhvTAevdU8

Dostoevsky, Fydor, Garnett (trans.). The Brothers Karamazov. New York, 1900.

Dostoevsky, Fydor, Mayne (trans.). Letters of F. M. Dostoevsky to his Family and Friends. New York, 1961.

de Maistre, J, Fletcher (trans.). On the Spanish Inquisition. Perth, 2022.

Morson, Gary Saul. “Paradoxical Dostoevsky.” The Slavic and East European Journal, vol. 43, no. 3, 1999, pp. 471–94.

Sandoz, Ellis. “Philosophical Anthropology and Dostoevsky’s ‘Legend of the Grand Inquisitor.’” The Review of Politics, vol. 26, no. 3, 1964, pp. 353–77.

Further Reading:

Belknap, Robert. The Genesis of the Brothers Karamazov: The Aesthetics, Ideology and Psychology of Text Making. Evanston, 1990.

COX, ROGER L. “DOSTOEVSKY’S GRAND INQUISITOR.” CrossCurrents, vol. 17, no. 4, 1967, pp. 427–44.

de Maistre, J. Dawson (trans.). The Pope. London, 1871.

Is Cinema the End of History?

Apostolic Majesty 2026-08-15 | Baudrillard, Jean, Glaser (trans.). Simulacra and Simulation. Ann Arbor, 1994.

Collingwood, R.G. The Idea of History. New York, 1946.

Rousseaus Post Catholic Christianity

Apostolic Majesty 2026-08-12 | Bertram, Christopher, "Jean Jacques Rousseau", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2024.

Melzer, Arthur M. “The Origin of the Counter-Enlightenment: Rousseau and the New Religion of Sincerity.” The American Political Science Review, vol. 90, no. 2, 1996, pp. 344–60.

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, Payne (trans.). Emile or Treatise on Education. New York, 2003.

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, Cranston (trans.). The Social Contract. London, 1968.

Further Reading:

Maritain, Jacques. Three Reformers, Luther, Descartes, Rousseau. New York, 1928.

Hungary After Austria-Hungary

Apostolic Majesty 2026-08-05 | Haynes, Rebecca, Rady, Martyn (eds.). In the Shadow of Hitler. London, 2011.

Nyyssönen, Heino. “Salami Reconstructed: ‘Goulash Communism’ and Political Culture in Hungary.” Cahiers Du Monde Russe, vol. 47, no. 1/2, 2006, pp. 153–72.

Sakmyster, Thomas. Hungary's Admiral on Horseback: Miklos Horthy, 1918-1944. Reno, 1994.

Further Reading:

Ullein-Reviczky, Antal. German War Russian Peace. Paris, 1947.

AM Reviews #12: Nolans Odyssey: A Postmortem

Apostolic Majesty 2026-08-01 | With Classical Odyssey: classicalodyssey.com

Eco, Umberto, McEwan (trans.). Experiences in Translation. London, 2001.

Eliana Dockterman: Christopher Nolan on Helen, Athena, and His New Ending for The Odyssey. Time Magazine, July 24 2026.

The War in the Vendée: Did the Royalists Win?

Apostolic Majesty 2026-07-29 | With Rupert August: youtube.com/@rupertaugust2403

Aulard, Alphonse. The French Revolution. London, 1910.

Beach, Vincent. Charles X of France: His Life and Times. Boulder, 1971

Holmes, Stephen. “Two Concepts of Legitimacy: France after the Revolution.” Political Theory, vol. 10, no. 2, 1982, pp. 165–83.

Mansfield, Andrew. Ideas of Monarchical Reform: Fenelon, Jacobitism and the Political Works of the Chevalier Ramsay. Manchester, 2015.

Michelet, Jules, Wright(trans.). History of the French Revolution. Chicago, 1967.

Secher, Reynald. A French Genocide: the Vendee. Notre Dame, 2003.

Secher, Reynald. The Franco-French Genocide: Vendée-Venge. Paris, 1986.

Further Reading:

Payne, Howard C. “The Bourbon Restoration’s Commissaires-Extraordinaires Du Roi in 1814.” French Historical Studies, vol. 9, no. 1, 1975, pp. 37–62.

Tackett, Timothy. “The West in France in 1789: The Religious Factor in the Origins of the Counterrevolution.” The Journal of Modern History, vol. 54, no. 4, 1982, pp. 715–45.

TILLY, CHARLES. “State and Counterrevolution in France.” Social Research, vol. 56, no. 1, 1989, pp. 71–91

Russia and the Causes of World War I: A Tradition of Aggression vs the Tsar Saint

Apostolic Majesty 2026-07-27 | With Rupert August: youtube.com/@rupertaugust2403

Clark, Christopher. The Sleepwalkers : How Europe Went to War in 1914. New York, 2012.

Pain, Emil. “The Imperial Syndrome and Its Influence on Russian Nationalism.” The New Russian Nationalism: Imperialism, Ethnicity and Authoritarianism 2000–2015, edited by Pål Kolstø and Helge Blakkisrud, Edinburgh University Press, 2016, pp. 46–74.

Ragsdale, Hugh. “Evaluating the Traditions of Russian Aggression: Catherine II and the Greek Project.” The Slavonic and East European Review, vol. 66, no. 1, 1988, pp. 91–117.

McMeekin. The Russian Origins of the First World War. London, 2011.

Taylor, A.J.P. The Struggle for Mastery in Europe. Oxford, 1957.

Wortman, Richard. “The Russian Empire and Russian Monarchy: The Problem of Russian Nationalism.” Russian Monarchy: Representation and Rule, Academic Studies Press, 2013, pp. 221–32.

Zevelev, Igor. Russian National Identity and Foreign Policy. Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), 2016.

Further Reading:

Hosking, Geoffrey. Russia: People and Empire, 1552-1917. Harvard, 1997.

Legvold, Robert (eds.) Russian foreign policy in the twenty-first century and the shadow of the past. New York, 2007.

Mombauer, Annika. “Guilt or Responsibility? The Hundred-Year Debate on the Origins of World War I.” Central European History, vol. 48, no. 4, 2015, pp. 541–64.

Remak, Joachim. “1914--The Third Balkan War: Origins Reconsidered.” The Journal of Modern History, vol. 43, no. 3, 1971, pp. 354–66.

Nolans Odyssey Represents the Death of Homer

Apostolic Majesty 2026-07-18 | I don't particularly like the film as a film - but I detest everything it represents.

The Holy Devil: Rasputin and the Breath of Corruption

Apostolic Majesty 2026-07-16 | Beevor, Antony. Rasputin and the Downfall of the Romanovs. London, 2026.

Freeze, Gregory L. “Subversive Piety: Religion and the Political Crisis in Late Imperial Russia.” The Journal of Modern History, vol. 68, no. 2, 1996, pp. 308–50.

Fulop-Miller. Rene. Rasputin: the Holy Devil. New York, 1928

Further Reading:

DIXON, SIMON. “The ‘Mad Monk’ Iliodor in Tsaritsyn.” The Slavonic and East European Review, vol. 88, no. 1/2, 2010, pp. 377–415.

Douglas, Smith. Rasputin: Faith, Power and the Twilight of the Romanovs. New York, 2016.

PODBOLOTOV, SERGEI. “MONARCHISTS AGAINST THEIR MONARCH: THE RIGHTISTS’ CRITICISM OF TSAR NICHOLAS II.” Russian History, vol. 31, no. 1/2, 2004, pp. 105–20.

The Other God: Manichean Christianity

Apostolic Majesty 2026-07-11 | With David Banica: https://x.com/DavidBanicaRO

de Blois, François. “Dualism in Iranian and Christian Traditions.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. 10, no. 1, 2000, pp. 1–19.

Koselleck, Reinhart. Critique and Crisis: Enlightenment and Pathogenesis of Modern Society. Cambridge, 1988.

Stoyanov, Yuri. The Other God, Dualist Religions from Antiquity to the Cathar Heresy. London, 2000.

Further Reading:

OBOLENSKY, DIMITRI. “Papas Nicetas: A Byzantine Dualist in the Land of the Cathars.” Harvard Ukrainian Studies, vol. 7, 1983, pp. 489–500.

Sumption, Jonathon. The Albigensian Crusade. London, 1978.

Vouga, François. “The Johannine School: A Gnostic Tradition in Primitive Christianity?” Biblica, vol. 69, no. 3, 1988, pp. 371–85.

House of the Dragons Broken Foundation

Apostolic Majesty 2026-07-11 | I was thinking of doing an all encompassing critique of the show's anti-medievalism and misandry, but these elements are so endemic that it would require a long comprehensive analysis - when the show ends. Here I have critiqued the shows surrealist foundation that makes a mockery of the political realism that the ASOIAF universe is nominally famous for.

Telemachus, Son of Odysseus: Fenelons Anti-Machiavel Prince

Apostolic Majesty 2026-07-08 | Fenelon, Francois, Hewitt (trans.) the Adventures of Telemachus. Houston, 2025.

Fenelon, Francois. the Lives of the Ancient Philosophers. Dublin, 1825.

Mansfield, Andrew. Ideas of Monarchical Reform: Fenelon, Jacobitism and the Political Works of the Chevalier Ramsay. Manchester, 2015.

Kanter, Sanford B. “Archbishop Fénelon’s Political Activity: The Focal Point of Power in Dynasticism.” French Historical Studies, vol. 4, no. 3, 1966, pp. 320–34.

Thompson, Benjamin, and Robert Lamb. “DISINTERESTEDNESS AND VIRTUE: ‘PURE LOVE’ IN FÉNELON, ROUSSEAU AND GODWIN.” History of Political Thought, vol. 32, no. 5, 2011, pp. 799–819.

Further Reading:

Adler, Alfred. “Fénelon’s ‘Télémaque’: Intention and Effect.” Studies in Philology, vol. 55, no. 4, 1958, pp. 591–602.

Francois, Fenelon. Dialogues of the Dead. London, 1760.

Schuurman, Paul, "Fenelon on Luxury, War and Trade in the Telemachus." History of European ideas, 38, 2012. pp.179-99

The Life of Fenelon: the Last Medieval Humanist

Apostolic Majesty 2026-07-04 | Francois, Fenelon. Dialogues of the Dead. London, 1760.

Fenelon, Francois, Follen, Eliza (eds.). Selections from the Writings of Fenelon. Boston, 1829.

Fenelon, Francois. the Lives of the Ancient Philosophers. Dublin, 1825.

van Kley. Dale. The Religious Origins of the French Revolution: From Calvin to the Civil Constitution, 1560-1791. Yale, 1996.

Mansfield, Andrew. Ideas of Monarchical Reform: Fenelon, Jacobitism and the Political Works of the Chevalier Ramsay. Manchester, 2015.

McGuire, Martin R. P. “Mediaeval Humanism.” The Catholic Historical Review, vol. 38, no. 4, 1953, pp. 397–409.

The House of Bavaria: a Brief History

Apostolic Majesty 2026-07-01 | Cavaliero, R. Genius, Power and Magic: a Cultural History of Germany from Goethe to Wagner. London, 2013.

Ford, Graham. “Constructing a Regional Identity: The Christian Social Union and Bavaria’s Common Heritage, 1949-1962.” Contemporary European History, vol. 16, no. 3, 2007, pp. 277–97.

Klang, Daniel. “Bavaria and the War of Liberation, 1813-1814.” French Historical Studies, vol. 4, no. 1, 1965, pp. 22–41.

Wilson, Peter. Europe's Tragedy: A New History of the Thirty Years War. London, 2009.

Wilson, Peter. Heart of Europe: History of the Holy Roman Empire. Harvard, 2016.

Further Reading:

Vedeler, Harold C. “The Genesis of the Toleration Reforms in Bavaria under Montgelas.” The Journal of Modern History, vol. 10, no. 4, 1938, pp. 473–95.

Dechristianising the Most Christian King

Apostolic Majesty 2026-06-27 | Baker, Keith Michael. “French Political Thought at the Accession of Louis XVI.” The Journal of Modern History, vol. 50, no. 2, 1978, pp. 279–303.

Bloch, Marc, (J.E. Anderson trans.). The Royal Touch: Sacred Monarchy and Scrofula in England and France. Oxford, 1973.

van Kley. Dale. The Religious Origins of the French Revolution: From Calvin to the Civil Constitution, 1560-1791. Yale, 1996.

Tess Lewis. “Madame de Pompadour: Eminence without Honor.” The Hudson Review, vol. 56, no. 2, 2003, pp. 303–14.

Schalk, David L. “The Character of Louis XV.” American Imago, vol. 19, no. 4, 1962, pp. 425–35.

Taine, Hippolyte, (j. Durand trans.). The Ancient Regime. New, York, 1876.

The Suppression of the Jesuits

Apostolic Majesty 2026-06-20 | Alfaro, Alfonso, et al. “THE JESUITS and Enlightened Despotism.” Artes de México, no. 92, 2008, pp. 81–104.

van Kley. Dale. The Religious Origins of the French Revolution: From Calvin to the Civil Constitution, 1560-1791. Yale, 1996.

MacErlean, John. “Clement XIV and the Suppression of the Jesuits.” Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, vol. 22, no. 87, 1933, pp. 480–93.

O’Leary, Brian. “Jesuit Spirituality Before and After the Suppression.” Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, vol. 103, no. 412, 2014, pp. 586–97.

Whitehead, Maurice. “From Expulsion to Restoration: The Jesuits in Crisis, 1759–1814.” Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, vol. 103, no. 412, 2014, pp. 447–61.

Wright, Jonathon. God' Soldiers: Adventure, Politics, Intrique and Power, a History of the Jesuits. New York, 2004.

Kantorowicz on Dantes Two Bodies

Apostolic Majesty 2026-06-17 | Kantorowicz, Ernst. The King's Two Bodies. Princeton, 1957.

Further Reading:

Heron, Nicholas. “The Superhuman Origins of Human Dignity: Kantorowicz’s Dante.” Journal of the History of Ideas, vol. 82, no. 3, 2021, pp. 427–52.

Lerner, Robert. Ernst Kantorowicz: A Life. Princeton, 2017.

Schildgen, Brenda Deen. “Dante’s Utopian Political Vision, the Roman Empire, and the Salvation of Pagans.” Annali d’Italianistica, vol. 19, 2001, pp. 51–69.

One Papacy, Three Popes: the Avignon Papacy & the Great Western Schism

Apostolic Majesty 2026-06-14 | ARCHIBALD, ELIZABETH. “THE FLIGHT FROM INCEST AS A LATIN PLAY: THE ‘COMOEDIA SINE NOMINE’, PETRARCH, AND THE AVIGNON PAPACY.”

Bayley, C. C. “Petrarch, Charles IV, and the ‘Renovatio Imperii.’” Speculum, vol. 17, no. 3, 1942, pp. 323–41.

Caterina da Siena, Theseider (eds.). Epistolario. Rome, 1940.

Petrarca, Francesco, Zacour (trans.) Liber Sine Nomine. Toronto, 1973.

Ross, W. Braxton. “Giovanni Colonna, Historian at Avignon.” Speculum, vol. 45, no. 4, 1970, pp. 533–63.

Further Reading:

Norwich, John J. The Popes. London, 1988.

Chronos, Kairos & Zeitbewusstsein: a Brief History of Time

Apostolic Majesty 2026-06-10 | Aurelius, Marcus. Haines, C.R. (Eds). Meditations. Cambridge, 1999.

Bergson, Henri: Creative Evolution. Paris, 1907.

Braudel, Fernand. On History. Paris, 1969.

Koselleck, Reinhart. Futures Past: On the Semantics of Historical Time. New York, 2004

Koselleck, Reinhart. Sediments of Time: On Possible Histories. Stanford ,2018

Koselleck, Reinhart. The Practice of Conceptual History: Timing History, Spacing Concepts. Stanford, 2002.

Paul, Joanne. “The Use of Kairos in Renaissance Political Philosophy.” Renaissance Quarterly, vol. 67, no. 1, 2014, pp. 43–78.

Smith, John E. “Time and Qualitative Time.” The Review of Metaphysics, vol. 40, no. 1, 1986, pp. 3–16.

Smith, John E. “TIME, TIMES, AND THE ‘RIGHT TIME’; ‘CHRONOS’ AND ‘KAIROS.’” The Monist, vol. 53, no. 1, 1969, pp. 1–13.

Spengler, Oswald. Decline of the West, London, 1926.

The Fall of the Knights Templar

Apostolic Majesty 2026-06-06 | Barber, Malcolm. The Trial of the Templars. Cambridge, 1978.

Holt, Andrew. “The New Knighthood: BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX AND THE TEMPLARS.” Medieval Warfare, vol. 6, no. 5, 2016, pp. 13–17.

Latham, Andrew A. “Theorizing the Crusades: Identity, Institutions, and Religious War in Medieval Latin Christendom.” International Studies Quarterly, vol. 55, no. 1, 2011, pp. 223–43.

Menache, Sophia. “The Templar Order: A Failed Ideal?” The Catholic Historical Review, vol. 79, no. 1, 1993, pp. 1–21.

Runciman, Steven. “The Decline of the Crusading Ideal.” The Sewanee Review, vol. 79, no. 4, 1971, pp. 498–513:

Alexander the Great: The First Byzantine Emperor?

Apostolic Majesty 2026-05-31 | With Classical Odyssey: classicalodyssey.com

Cary, George. “Alexander the Great in Mediaeval Theology.” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, vol. 17, no. 1/2, 1954, pp. 98–114

Fischer-Bovet, Christelle and von Reden, Sitta (Eds). Comparing the Ptolemaic and Seleucid Empires. Cambridge, 2021.

Gero, Stephen. “The Alexander Legend in Byzantium: Some Literary Gleanings.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers, vol. 46, 1992, pp. 83–87.

Koselleck, Reinhart. Futures Past: on the Semantics of Historical Time. New York, 2004.

de Mauriac, Henry M. “Alexander the Great and the Politics of ‘Homonoia.’” Journal of the History of Ideas, vol. 10, no. 1, 1949, pp. 104–14.

Pseudo-Callisthenes, Stoneman, Richard (Trans). The Legendary Adventures of Alexander the Great. London, 1991.

Storch, Rudolph H. “The ‘Eusebian Constantine.’” Church History, vol. 40, no. 2, 1971, pp. 145–55.

Further Reading:

Badian, E. “Alexander the Great and the Unity of Mankind.” Historia: Zeitschrift Für Alte Geschichte, vol. 7, no. 4, 1958, pp. 425–44.

KIM, TAE HUN. “THE DREAM OF ALEXANDER IN JOSEPHUS: ‘ANT.’ 11.325-39.” Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman Period, vol. 34, no. 4, 2003, pp. 425–42.

Shaye J. D. Cohen. “Alexander the Great and Jaddus the High Priest According to Josephus.” AJS Review, vol. 7/8, 1982, pp. 41–68.

Guelphs & Ghibellines Revisited: A Defence of a World View

Apostolic Majesty 2026-05-26 | Original source: youtube.com/watch?v=nGoJ1FwoPpc

Ranking the Habsburgs

Apostolic Majesty 2026-05-11 | ...

AM Reviews #10: Stanley Kubricks Barry Lyndon

Apostolic Majesty 2026-05-04 | With John Dee: youtube.com/@iohndee

The Making of the Angevin Empire

Apostolic Majesty 2026-03-22 | Bachrach, Bernard S. “The Idea of the Angevin Empire.” Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies, vol. 10, no. 4, 1978, pp. 293–99.

Catholicism Meets Confucius

Apostolic Majesty 2026-03-08 | Davis, Walter W. “China, the Confucian Ideal, and the European Age of Enlightenment.” Journal of the History of Ideas, vol. 44, no. 4. 1983.

Liu, Yu. “The Intricacies of Accommodation: The Proselytizing Strategy of Matteo Ricci.” Journal of World History, vol. 19, no. 4, 2008, pp. 465–87.

Further Reading:

MUNGELLO, D. E. “REINTERPRETING THE HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN CHINA.” The Historical Journal, vol. 55, no. 2, 2012, pp. 533–52.

Spence, J. D. The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci. New York, 1984.

With: Sino Lit: youtube.com/@sinolit

Two Irans: An Apocalyptic Vision

Apostolic Majesty 2026-03-05 | With Bede: youtube.com/@bedeofbritannia

Kant: A Reactionary Reading

Apostolic Majesty 2026-03-02 | Anchor, Robert. “Kant and Philosophy of History in Goethe’s ‘Faust.’” Historical Reflections / Réflexions Historiques, vol. 26, no. 3, 2000, pp. 487–506.

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Oswald Spengler on History as Science

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The Value of Kants Critique of Pure Reason to an Epistemology of History

Apostolic Majesty 2026-02-25 | Kant, Immanuel. Critique of Pure Reason. Meiklejohn, J.M.D Trans, London, 1934.

Mircea Eliade: the Historical Consciousness Confronts the Cosmos

Apostolic Majesty 2026-02-22 | Eliade Mircea. The Forge and the Crucible: the Origins and Structures of Alchemy. Corrin, Stephen, Trans. Phoenix, 1962.

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The Third Reichs English Alliance Delusion

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Strobl, Gerwin. The Germanic Isle: Nazi Perceptions of Britain. Cambridge, 2000.

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Christopher Dawson: A Theology of History

Apostolic Majesty 2026-02-14 | Dawson, Christopher. Dynamics of World History. Mulloy, John., eds. La Salle, 1978.

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Does Germany Exist? Prolegomena

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To Kill a Katechon: the Intersection of German, Greek, French & Russian Nationalism

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Joan of Arc: Canonization, Corruption & Conspiracy

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Does Germany Exist?

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Hilaire Belloc: the Case for a Catholic Republic?

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Joan of Arc: the Maid & the Meta

Apostolic Majesty 2026-01-17 | Barstow, Anne Llewellyn. “Joan of Arc and Female Mysticism.” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, vol. 1, no. 2, 1985, pp. 29–42.

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1: Oda Nobunaga: the Demon King

Apostolic Majesty 2025-12-08 | Jōhei, Sasaki. “The Era of the Kanō School.” Modern Asian Studies, vol. 18, no. 4, 1984, pp. 647–56.

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Spafford, David. “Emperor and Shogun, Pope and King: The Development of Japan’s Warrior Aristocracy.” Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts, vol. 88, no. 1/4, 2014, pp. 10–19.

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Japans Catholic Century: Portugals Shadow Empire?

Apostolic Majesty 2025-12-01 | Höpfl, Harro. Jesuit Political Thought: The Society of Jesus and the State, c. 1540–1640. Cambridge, 2004.

Ucerler, Antonio. The Samurai and the Cross. Oxford, 2022.

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Edward I Longshanks: Englands Justinian?

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Talleyrand: Frances Greatest Diplomat

Apostolic Majesty 2025-09-01 | Cooper, Duff. Talleyrand. London, 1932.

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