ENTERTAINMENT NOTES: Leather artist, solar scientist take the 'stage' this week
Leather artist Bryant Phelan headlines this month's Potluck & Poison Ivy, 6 p.m. Thursday at The Joint in North Little Rock.
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Leather artist Bryant Phelan headlines this month's Potluck & Poison Ivy, 6 p.m. Thursday at The Joint in North Little Rock.
The Atlantic In late antiquity, the religion split the Mediterranean world in two. Now it is remaking the Continent. Europe was essentially defined by Islam. And Islam is redefining it now. For centuries in early and middle antiquity, Europe meant the world surrounding the Mediterranean, or Mare Nostrum (“Our Sea”), as the Romans famously called it. It included North Africa. Indeed, early in the fifth century A.D., when Saint Augustine lived in what is today Algeria, North Africa was as much a center of Christianity as Italy or Greece. But the swift advance of Islam across North Africa ...