Propositum est videre rem quid sit
“People will not, finally, esteem kings and Caesars above other men because they are highly placed, but because they see farther and act wiser.”
“An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man”
Anglo-Texan PhD in War Studies and Statecraft at King’s College London, lover of all things Henry II and Federico II and Machiavelli, Brahmsian and Wagnerian, loquacious about medieval constitutional history, and political to my fingertips