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Ex Urbe Ad Astra Ep. 4: Bright and Dark Ages with historian and journalist David Perry

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The Dark Age Within Science Fiction

There's also an obsession within science fiction with belizarius, who comes into a lest darkness fall than i just mentioned. Then we're looking at all this through gibbon's idea that it is christianity that wrecked the roman empire - which petrarch did not have hundred%. And that very a changes the way we think of the golden age and yorgage.

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