One thing I like about this is that it goes directly against the idea that human development is a steady march forward. That the past was mostly dark and backward. That, say, the 19th century was by definiton more advanced than the 12th. That the Church was always repressive. (You see this in women's history, too. In several respects, 12th century women had more freedom than women in the Victorian age, but few people know this.)
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Date: 2004-07-02 12:53 am (UTC)Thanks for the link!