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Middle Ages 3: the High Middle Ages

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

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The Arthur of the Round Table, a Knight for Hire

The arthur was supposedly a legendary king of england who may have been based on a real person. The first more comprehensive account of the arthur we know is by geoffrey of monmouth in the 11 thirties. But they were actually taking their own idealized self image of their own age and projecting it into the past.

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