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Tag Archives: Jacques le Goff
journey to the dark past
A thousand years ago our forebears lived in a “dark age.” They themselves did not think it was dark and they were only half wrong. To those who think we are entering a new dark age… …Food varied with the … Continue reading
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Tagged Edward Gibbon, George Macaulay Trevelyan, Jacques le Goff, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Medieval Civilization, Raoul Glaber chronicler, Sharan Newman, The Dark Ages, The Dark Ages food, The Dark Ages housing shelter
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fifty score years ago, our forebears…
Are we entering a new Dark Age? Is one at hand? We might well to look back to the last Dark Age, which beclouded Europe from the fall of Rome to the beginning of the brilliant Middle Age in, more … Continue reading
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Tagged Bayeaux Tapestry, Edward Gibbon, Frank Thadeusz, George Macaulay Trevelyan, Jacques le Goff, Limbourg Brothers, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Professor Lynn White, Raoul Glaber chronicler, The Dark Ages, The Middle Ages
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OLD HABITS DIE HARD
They were tribes in quest. The Huns, who initiated the great wave of migrations, likewise did not merit their reputation as savage and implacable enemies of civilization, though they came quite close. After destroying the Gothic kingdom in the Ukraine, … Continue reading
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