alcuin

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   by alcuin 4mo ago

   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 Constantinople's treasury years before the Cr
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   by alcuin 5mo ago

   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 from the aristocracy to which Sigurd belonged. The second is th
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   by alcuin 6y ago

   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 intellectual developments in the early middl
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   by alcuin 6y ago

   > 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 thoroughly debunked by Sylvain Gouguenheim many years ago. A real