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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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Early Mediaeval Western Civilization Was Lost

Producing a single book in the middle ages was a tremendous undertaking. The main good material that europeans had access to was a parchment, which generally had to be made from animal skins. In order to copy over a single bible, one copy of the bible would require killing 300 calves. And so books and documents were cannibalized, erased, re used.

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