Adrian J. Boas
Transience
It seems that the most splendid things are those the existence of which is most fleeting. Spring is here and already gone, and there is...
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Adrian J. Boas
May 24, 20214 min
On Disappearances
Two unexplained episodes of people vanishing stand out in the memories in my childhood. One was the disappearance of an Australian Prime...
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Adrian J. Boas
Apr 21, 20212 min
On Rural Footholds
The narrow dirt track, deeply ridged from the recent rains, passes uncultivated fields and vineyards where the twisted vines are just...
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Adrian J. Boas
Apr 13, 20213 min
On Too Little of a Good Thing
After failing in numerous attempts at opening an external drive (the tiny white light on the side lit up and flickered like a distant...
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Adrian J. Boas
Apr 1, 20212 min
On Selflessness and Gain
The concept of selfless love is a fine one perhaps, but how often is love genuinely selfless? How often do people do purely altruistic...
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Adrian J. Boas
Mar 24, 20213 min
On a Beautiful Surviver
Stripped of almost all forms of embellishment, the convent church of St Anne has been recompensed for its losses, particularly in the...
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Adrian J. Boas
Mar 17, 20214 min
On a Necessary Vulnerability
Several years ago, I obtained a dried lotus flower, and through a bit of research on the internet managed to find out how to geminate the...
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Adrian J. Boas
Mar 10, 20214 min
Copy of On Locating the Stables
A large part of the appeal of archaeology lies in the fact that one never knows what one is going to uncover. It is perhaps one of the...
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Adrian J. Boas
Mar 10, 20214 min
On Locating the Stables
A large part of the appeal of archaeology lies in the fact that one never knows what one is going to uncover. It is perhaps one of the...
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Adrian J. Boas
Feb 24, 20213 min
On the Unluckiest Man
Recent excavations in the city of Pompeii uncovered the skeleton of a man who appeared to have been decapitated by a large stone. He was...
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Adrian J. Boas
Feb 16, 20213 min
On Ecocide - an Arboreal War Crime
“All is fair in love and war” is an aphorism attributed to the sixteenth century English wit, poet and playwright, John Lyly. Basically,...
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Adrian J. Boas
Feb 8, 20213 min
On Defying Gravity
We should be very pleased that there is gravity holding us onto the world. Gravity is essential for the existence of life on the planet,...
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Adrian J. Boas
Feb 1, 20213 min
On Fact and Fiction. A Novel Experience
For those interested in the subject matter of my upcoming book The Sulphur Priest, and without giving too much away and leaving the title...
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Adrian J. Boas
Jan 25, 20213 min
On Short and Fairly Inconsequential Reigns
Every family has its more colourful characters. In mine there is an interesting mix of the illustrious and the dubious, among them...
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Adrian J. Boas
Jan 18, 20211 min
A word to my readers
I have been writing this blog on crusader related topics for two and a half years, and at no time have written less than two posts a...
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Adrian J. Boas
Jan 14, 20213 min
On a Manifestation of Monastic Poverty
Poverty as an ideal is not unique to Christian monasticism. It is found in the teachings of the Stoics such as Seneca and Epictetus and...
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Adrian J. Boas
Jan 10, 20212 min
On the Farming Life
Of the many important contributions Ronnie Ellenblum made in crusading studies, one of the most substantial is his shattering of the old...
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Adrian J. Boas
Jan 7, 20212 min
On a Brilliant Mind
For three years in the 1990s I co-directed excavations at the Templar fortress Vadum Iacob (Jacob's Ford), a project initiated and...
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Adrian J. Boas
Jan 6, 20214 min
On Fire and Brimstone - The Uses of Sulphur, Real and Imagined
Among the objects discovered by the Metropolitan Museum of Art expedition to Montfort Castle in 1926 were a number of pieces of sulphur....
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Adrian J. Boas
Jan 4, 20214 min
On the Return of the Native
Recent history has shown us just how detrimental to wildlife the human presence is. In an extreme example, after the deadly nuclear...
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