Daniel Mitsui, one of our greatest medievalists, fills in the vapid void that most moderns share about the Middle Ages; namely, that it was muddy, superstitious, and drab subservience to the Church. Oh yeah? Well, even Monty Python’s Terry Jones knows better.
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Renaissance Lies re: the Middle Ages
Or, Even Monty Python Knoweth It
Daniel Mitsui, one of our greatest medievalists, fills in the vapid void that most moderns share about the Middle Ages; namely, that it was muddy, superstitious, and drab subservience to the Church. Oh yeah? Well, even Monty Python’s Terry Jones knows better.
Daniel Mitsui, one of our greatest medievalists, fills in the vapid void that most moderns share about the Middle Ages; namely, that it was muddy, superstitious, and drab subservience to the Church. Oh yeah? Well, even Monty Python’s Terry Jones knows better.
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