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armorica9.bsky.social @armorica9.bsky.social · 1h

For a thousand years persuasion lived in the speaker: Athenian logic, Roman character. Then the book took over. From Athens to Anglo-Saxon England, ethos moved from person to text to institution. Historical Rhetoric for Modern Fights #rhetoric #historyofrhetoric #rhetoricafterrome

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armorica9.bsky.social @armorica9.bsky.social · 1h

Arm Yourself No. 2: EUNOIA — goodwill toward the audience. Kushner negotiates peace while his portfolio grows with the war. Goodwill: not shown. My rhetoric trading cards: spot them in the wild, win the argument. Historical Rhetoric for Modern Fights #rhetoric #historyofrhetoric #rhetoricafterrome

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armorica9.bsky.social @armorica9.bsky.social · 17h

Follow me to collect all the Rhetoricians of History trading cards. 😜 Historical Rhetoric for Modern Fights. — The Medieval Rhetor

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armorica9.bsky.social @armorica9.bsky.social · 21h

The Saturnalia — out now. Listen on your platform: album.link/s/42QWwu1AQN... #newmusic #indiemusic

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armorica9.bsky.social @armorica9.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The No Kings movement has scheduled a nationwide "No Kings: Vote Early" day of action for Saturday, October 17, 2026. Plan ahead! Take the day off and shut the country down.

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armorica9.bsky.social @armorica9.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Arm Yourself No. 1: CUI BONO — who benefits? Kushner negotiates a Gaza peace deal while his firm profits from $465M in arms suppliers. Follow the money. Historical Rhetoric for Modern Fights #rhetoric #historyofrhetoric #rhetoricafterrome

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armorica9.bsky.social @armorica9.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The death of Rhetoric as a field of study was announced 900 years after the fact. That story is a Renaissance invention, not a medieval fact. Historical Rhetoric for Modern Fights #rhetoric #historyofrhetoric

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armorica9.bsky.social @armorica9.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Pagan Love Songs — out now. Listen on your platform: album.link/s/1juBgh5QAD... #newmusic #indiemusic

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armorica9.bsky.social @armorica9.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Elene: a warrior queen sails to Jerusalem with an army, then starves a prisoner until he reveals the True Cross. Her ethos is her might — the argument rides on the threat. Historical Rhetoric for Modern Fights #rhetoric #historyofrhetoric

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armorica9.bsky.social @armorica9.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Charlemagne didn't just write the law down — his scholars backdated it, giving new codes invented ancient genealogies that justified the empire. Royal law ended the nobles' private courts. #rhetoric #historyofrhetoric

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armorica9.bsky.social @armorica9.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

SMS — out now. Listen on your platform: album.link/s/0RilnNTsgD... #newmusic #indiemusic

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armorica9.bsky.social @armorica9.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Charlemagne's power move wasn't arguing doctrine — it was copying. The Tours scriptorium churned out 46 Bibles in a clean new script, flooding the kingdom with the authoritative text — now stamped with royal authority. Who controls the books controls the kingdom. #rhetoric #historyofrhetoric

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armorica9.bsky.social @armorica9.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

For those of you who use both Threads and BlueSky, do you use them differently? How so? Or do you just cross-post the same stuff on both?

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armorica9.bsky.social @armorica9.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ælfric's 10th-century Life of St. Basil: a young man signs his soul to the Devil to win the woman he wants. The Devil demands ink — oaths fade, contracts bind. In court the Devil waves his signed proof, and Basil tears it up. Moral authority outranks paperwork.

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armorica9.bsky.social @armorica9.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Franks couldn't out-Rome the Byzantines, so they reached past Rome to the Bible: Charlemagne as a new David, the Franks as a new Israel — God's chosen people. Rhetoric didn't just decorate the empire. It elected it. #rhetoric #historyofrhetoric #rhetoricafterrome

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armorica9.bsky.social @armorica9.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In 476, Odoacer deposed Romulus Augustulus, the last western emperor. Rhetoric didn't die — it got a new employer. Charlemagne's Franks used schools, books, and laws to forge a Christian empire. Historical Rhetoric for Modern Fights. #rhetoric #historyofrhetoric #rhetoricafterrome

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armorica9.bsky.social @armorica9.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Peachtree, NB, DM — out now. Listen on your platform: album.link/s/63mbr6byPX... #newmusic #indiemusic

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armorica9.bsky.social @armorica9.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In Rome, speech could get you killed. So rhetoric learned to behave. Cicero turned to dialogue on ethos; Quintilian made it a curriculum: the good man speaking well. Historical Rhetoric for Modern Fights. From my dissertation (Georgia State, 2017). #rhetoric #historyofrhetoric #rhetoricafterrome

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armorica9.bsky.social @armorica9.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Herald — out now. Listen on your platform: album.link/s/4oZxEt5Ozc...

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armorica9.bsky.social @armorica9.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Traps for Troubadours (EP) — out now. Listen on your platform: album.link/s/3gMahbMBGZ...

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armorica9.bsky.social @armorica9.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Soft Landing — out now. Listen on your platform: album.link/s/2EOBEJyJBX...

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armorica9.bsky.social @armorica9.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Chinny Chin Chin — my new album, a work in progress. I'm posting tracks as I make them; listen along: on.soundcloud.com/GBKPR8OOCCac...

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armorica9.bsky.social @armorica9.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Rhetoric After Rome: ideas each day from rhetoric's history. I'm a PhD in the field, tracing persuasion from Athens to Anglo-Saxon England — and what it teaches us about arguing for ourselves and seeing through others' arguments. Historical Rhetoric for Modern Fights. #rhetoricafterrome

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armorica9.bsky.social @armorica9.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In Athens, the courtroom ran on fear and confidence — Aristotle's dread of imminent harm, and the elite's freedom from it. Rhetoric was how a society held together. From my dissertation (Georgia State, 2017). Historical Rhetoric for Modern Fights. #rhetoric #historyofrhetoric #rhetoricafterrome