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Currently I’m reading Framing the Early Middle Ages by Chris Wickham, which treats Europe and the Mediterranean in the years 400-800 (this, especially the West, was my specialisation back when I was a historian). Wickham has been courageous enough to attempt a general definition of an “aristocrat”, and I couldn’t resist the temptation to apply his criteria to today’s Web development aristocrats.

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