Tag Archives: Jessica Lutkin

from the beginning: happy discomfort

If the prophets of despair speak sooth, we might do well to look back to the last Dark Age, which beclouded Europe from the fall of Rome, whenever that was, to the beginning of the brilliant Middle Age in, more … Continue reading

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dark indeed, but were they happy?

The world of a thousand years ago. One thousand years ago our forebears lived in a “dark age.” They themselves did not believe it was that dark and they were only half wrong… The roofs of peasant cottages in the … Continue reading

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