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Inventing the Middle Ages

By jordan on May 8, 2009

Just finished Norman F. Cantor’s  Inventing the Middle Ages, about the great medievalists of the 20th century. It’s uneven, but considering the range of figures he deals with it’s understandable. He can’t be an expert on the life and work of every medievalist of the 20th century. But the weak passages are outweighed by the [...]

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