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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 →
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
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Tagged Barbara Tuchman, Charles Hastings, George Macaulay Trevelyan, Jacques le Goff, Jessica Lutkin, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Petrarch Italian scholar, Professor Lynn White, Raoul Glaber chronicler, Sharan Newman, The Dark Ages, The Gospels of Otto III
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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 →
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
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Tagged Barbara Tuchman, Conrad II Germany Holy Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon, George Macaulay Trevelyan, Jacques le Goff, Jean Froissart Chronicles, Jessica Lutkin, Limbourg Brothers, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Otto III Holy Roman Emperor, Raoul Glaber chronicler, Salian Dynasty Germany
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