Trevor Palmer: Writers and Re-Writers of the First Millennium (e-book)
The e-book
My recent e-book developed from a multi-part article published in installments in C&C Review, the overall title being, "The Writings of the Historians of the Roman and Early Medieval Periods and their Relevance to the Chronology of the First Millennium AD".
The installments were as follows:
Part I: Introduction, C&C Review 2015:3, pp. 23-35.
Part IIa: Roman Emperors, C&C Review 2016:1, pp. 11-19.
Part IIb: Byzantine Emperors, C&C Review 2016:2, pp. 28-35.
Part IIIa: Early Barbarian Europe, C&C Review 2016:3, pp. 24-32.
Part IIIb: Late Barbarian Europe, C&C Review 2017:1, pp. 19-28.
The reasons I had for writing this article are summarized on pages 4-5 of the e-book. Whilst I'm sympathetic in general towards unorthodox theories, I never, as a matter of principle, argue that any particular theory is right (or wrong). In most of my SIS articles (including this one), I just try to ensure that as much relevant evidence as possible is brought out into the open, in a fair way, to enable informed debates to take place about individual theories, and for supporters of particular theories to be able to address apparent problems.
I've taken that same approach in an article on the chronology of the ancient world which has just been published in C&C Review 2019:3. In that article, after summarizing evidence which was brought to my attention during a tour of archaeological sites in Turkey in 2008, I concluded, "Because of the above, and many other reasons, I remained convinced that the conventional chronology of the ancient world was flawed and that an alternative, removing the anomalies without introducing new ones, needed to be found. However, as to the details of this alternative chronology, I was, and still am, completely open-minded."
Trevor Palmer
(from an e-mail to Anne-Marie de Grazia, Dec. 3rd, 2019)
Trevor Palmer: biography
His investigations of genetic disorders led to an interest in evolution, and that in turn to catastrophism. He was a member of Council of the Society for Interdisciplinary Studies (SIS) from 1986 to 2009, and Chairman from 1995 to 1998 and again from 2000 to 2002.
On his election to the Nottingham Trent University Professoriate in 1990, Trevor Palmer gave two Professorial Lectures: one was concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of inherited disorders; the other was entitled, “The Fall and Rise of Catastrophism”. His written output has similarly been split between biochemistry and catastrophism. Alone or with others, he has written five textbooks on enzymology (one of which ran to four editions), and has been a co-author of numerous papers published in biochemical or medical journals.
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