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The surprisingly modern Middle Ages

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Writing a Book About the Middle Ages

The challenge with writing a book about the middle ages is to acknowledge that this is a fairly urocentric term, and that there are current strains of thinking in academia which says that eurocentrism is, by definition bad. So i've tried to cast the net wide here, and it is, but it's a delicate er. I think thee there is a great book to be written one day, which you've slightly alluded to, possibly not by me, lthough maybe by me. A history of the middle ages with the perspective completely shifted, completely flipped. Thatwill be a fine book. It ha to be a very difficult book to ar,. to write in a waya

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