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Middle Ages 9: Knowledge and Ignorance in the Middle Ages (and Today)

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

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The Consolation of Philosophy by Boet

City of god was written in the early five hundreds by a man named boethius. It's remarkable that copies of it did survive all the way through the middle ages. The book became, in effect, the orthodoxy of early mediaeval intellectual life. But not as widely read and as widely known as another book called the consolation of philosophy by boet.

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