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Comment #48412051
It's a nice vibe history you've got going on here but unfortunately it has little to do with reality. I recommend starting with the disastrous reign of Alexios III who had drained …
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Comment #48160174
King Sigurd is a bad example for two reasons. One being that you are implicitly conflating Scandinavians with Vikings, when the latter were a subset of pirates largely disjoint fro…
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Comment #25319714
I don't know where you are reading about his work, but his Aristote au mont Saint-Michel isn't about his ideas or beliefs, it's about providing historical evidence of significant i…
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Comment #25317700
> That story begins in a palace library nearly a thousand years ago, at a time when most of Western Christendom lay in intellectual darkness. Laughable revisionism already thorough…