Medieval history
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Movimiento
Movimiento, I don’t support class society either, and to support a dead one is impossible anyway. It isn’t about supporting, but about ascribing the wrong faults and not the correct ones. Using “medieval” / the “middle ages” as an epithet deserved by a later, much lauded (“Renaissance”) era is both undeserved and tiresome.
– As is the term “medieval” in the first place, assuming a period of stagnation between the two “civilised” ones of Roman empire and “Renaissance.”
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“– As is the term “medieval” in the first place, assuming a period of stagnation between the two “civilised” ones of Roman empire and “Renaissance.”
A bit off-topic, but isn’t ‘medieval’ a reasonable description of a fairly dark western European period of migrations, invasions, wars, collapses, total loss of knowledge, and, er, multiple plague pandemics?
“With such shadowy figures like King Arthur and Ragnar Lodbrok it is one of my favourites although now much maligned by modern historians.”
Presumably by “shadowy” you mean fictional which almost certainly both were.
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