Writing a New History of the Middle Ages: Interview with Dan Jones on Powers and Thrones
Tides of History
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The Roman Empire, Isn't It?
I think often the past is its own best judge. Credit the reader with some intelligence to make their own moral judgments. That's something we're not doing very much in the modern world. And so, as a writer, there are lots of instances in the book where i present thing's happening and don't then say, es i dan jones think that was bad. Just in case you were about to assume that i thought it was good. I i'm telling you the story. If i do it at all skilfully, you'll see where my sympathies lie"
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