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Middle Ages 11: The Pulsating Body -- The Medieval World View

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

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Keeping Estates Together in France and the Dark Ages

In france and many other parts of continental europe, the practice was to divide up estates evenly among all sons. It produces a lot of unattached, mobile people, but it keeps estates together. And you might remember, in the lecture about the dark ages, i talked about how this is part of why charlemagne's empire broke up.

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