Middle Ages 11: The Pulsating Body -- The Medieval World View
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
The Real Prize Was Stability, Cohesion, Continuity
The mediaeval world had a sort of fractile quality, which is term that other historians have used for fr china. There were s of organization that you could see on the small scale that then were repeated and replicated in this ever growing hierarchy up to the scale of kingdoms and empires. The ideal of creating stability and continuity was pursued and realized starting on the everyday level where most people actually lived and worked. And it was embodied in practices and institutions that built their way upward to cities, kingdoms, the church and so forth.
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