Peter Berling

PROLOGUEIn memoriam infantium ex sanguine regali a la mémoire des enfants de sang royal (Chronique de Guillaume de Rubrouck)La lumiere dorée d'un soleil qui avait presque completement disparu de ma vie illuminait encore la forteresse des hérétiques comme si Dieu voulait souligner devant nos...

Nationalism and Identity ForewarnedThe Swedes think it entirely appropriate that the cartographer Mercator magnanimously drew Sweden roughly the size of Africa. They object to being lumped in with other Scandinavians, as if they had no identity of their own.From a Swedish perspective the...