Dark Age bullies & forgotten kingdoms: busting early medieval myths
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Donnie: The Dark Ages
There really isn't an overarching narrative that you can knit together. The book seeks to convey that we can't just impose a one-size-fits-all storyline onto this period. It's lots of people working together and against each other to try to find some sort of new world, some new way of doing business. Some of them work, some of them don't work at all, others end up a messy compromise.
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