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alcuin

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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…