The surprisingly modern Middle Ages
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What's the West Good At?
i think western europe was a bit of a backwater of technological innovation for a large part of this period, notwithstanding printing press that you just talked about. It's become almost like a knee jerk response whenever we talk about the middle ages to apologize or for the west. But what is the west good at? The west is good at adapting and borrowing technologies from other parts of the world,. Literature that's been preserved in other languages, bringing it in and folding it into er the existing of skein of Western society.
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