Middle Ages 1: Exploding the Myth of the Middle Ages
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
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We're Living in the Middle Ages
Most people, whether they were learned or not, didn't think of themselves as living in the middle ages. But there was a small fringe school of thought that emerged in the high and late middle ages who did walk around saying, we're in the middle age. So for them, when they looked back at history, they separated a time into periods based on great cosmic events. And from their point of view, they were living in the last epocha.
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