
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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The History of the World in the Middle Ages
When we talk to day about the middle ages a, or use the word mediaeval, we tend to be talking about something horrible. But then we get the modern age, where we wonderful moderns get to revive everything that was good in the ancient world. It's a very nice, convenient a story and it wraps up very nicely. A, but a, but it's a myth. And that's not to say that it's entirely false, or that nothing tit is true, but it’s a really arbitrary way of structuring history"
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