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Writing a New History of the Middle Ages: Interview with Dan Jones on Powers and Thrones

Tides of History

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Raten, History Doesn't Repeat It, but It Does Rough

i feel like the mark of a really good history book is when you're reading it and you see the rhymes with the present, without the author beat you over the head with it. But if you have to draw the comparison that tightly, then i think the comp son itself has lost its power,. It's not what comparative history is for either. There are certain points in powers and thrones where i've made it explicit. They're all in the footnotes. I don't like to like the genuine. I ilik o istb an apparatus within the book for slightly crass jokes.

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