John of Garland

Categories: Ancient, Medieval
Tags: Achaemenid Empire, Achaemenid memory, ancient, John of Garland, medieval

John of Garland

John of Garland on Satraps and Satrapies

a harbour with a rubble shore revetted with concrete blocks in the foreground and a low shore with a mix of human-sized buuldings and towers across the water — Staring across the Inner Harbour of Victoria, BC at the former site of Capitol Iron (at one time a shipbreaker which recycled parts of the WW II Canadian Navy). Photo by Sean Manning July 2023

I got a blog post (and a sentence in a scholarly encyclopedia) out of what Niccolo Machiavelli thought about the fall of the Persian empire. I found another comment by the medieval scholar John of Garland who was active from c. 1220 to 1252.