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Medieval emotions: were they like our own?

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Agess Is a Very Different Way of Writing History

I think we are all human, and i think people in ulster in 800 were experiencing emotions like grief and laughter and happiness and despair. But they're operating within a completely different world view that is so framed by christian morality. So it would be a very difficult place for me, as a modern atheist academic, you know, to even attempt to inhabit. I honestly haven't enjoyed a book more. Agess it's a really, really brilliant way to take us into into the mediaeval minds i've just been talking about. but it is a very different way of writing. It's a very, if it is a history book, it's a very personal one.

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