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Lev Grossman's 6 favorite books that explore the Middle AgesBelow, the author of the best-selling "Magicians" trilogy recommends six great books about medieval times. Jones begins his kaleidoscopic account with the sack of Rome in 410 and never slows down.
The book discusses that troubled legacy drawing on the discourses on Muslims originating in the European Middle Ages, and locates the nineteenth-century texts concerning the Saracens and their lands ...
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Medieval Female Scribes Were Far More Common Than Previously Thought. At Least 110,000 Medieval Manuscripts Were Copied by WomenFor centuries, the image of a monk hunched over a desk, painstakingly copying manuscripts by candlelight, has dominated our ...
exploring how the figure of the fool evolved between the Middle Ages and the 19th century Julia Binswanger Dating to the fifth and sixth centuries C.E., the burials held a trove of grave goods ...
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