Latin Europe (formerly Ambulatin) is a project on the cultural–historical heart of the region, covering Italy, Spain, France (and sometimes Portugal). It’s where Roman law, Latin Christianity, humanism, Renaissance innovation, early modern statecraft, and Mediterranean mercantile traditions took deep root. These pieces treat these interconnected lands as a shared formation zone - where ideas flowed freely across borders, adapted to local realities, and solidified into enduring institutions, customs, and values. The goal is neither nostalgia nor academic completeness, but clarity: how authority was balanced with community, how beauty and discipline coexisted, and why high-trust societies and resilient cultural norms first flourished so strongly in this Latin European core.

Emailing schedule is once a week but publishing direct to blog is multiple times per week. Some articles occasionally might be cross-border, for contextual reasons.

About me: I’m Adam, an American (born & raised) who learned Latin languages as an adult. I’ve been studying Europe for almost three decades and living in the region, on and off, for nearly 15 years.

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