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Middle Ages 1: Exploding the Myth of the Middle Ages

Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong

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The Three Persons of the Trinity

Christ believed that he was living in the middle age, which would soon end and be replaced by the millennium of peace. This was a kind of a edgy and unusual notion that the church was not entirely comfortable with. But for several hundred years, they didn't formally condemn it either. It actually gathered a certain number of followers around europe who subscribed to this apocalyptic notion of history. So this was a school of thought that was a apocalyptic but it was optimistic.

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