In an academic world that is becoming more and more fixated on publishing only what is demonstrable and defensible on a purely logical level, with ample reference to all the existing literature in the field, it is rare to find studies that tackle wide-range historical questions with philosophical implications. With very few exceptions, refereed journal articles are only allowed to add little grains of insight to the sum of knowledge, and even monographs (as resounding as their titles may be) often end up looking like collections of articles by a single author or summaries of the state of their art.

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