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America’s New Religions & the Cult of Self-Making | Tara Isabella Burton

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The Waining of the Middle Ages

The Waining of the Middle Ages by Johann Huizenga is a book that made an impression on me. I was also told to read that book as a 14-year-old and never quite understood the scholarly backlash, not because I tried to understand it. There are sort of multiple accounts of this kind of fetishization of the medieval mind. And perhaps the reason why there's so much controversy around this period is because of how little was written down,. The low rates of literacy, you know, and stuff like that.

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