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"Medieval Architecture is boring." France says otherwise.

Only one copy of Tacitus' Germania survived, which had been copied in the Carolingian Renaissance. Ovid was also a hit in Charlemagne's court iirc.

Incredible stuff. Great thread.

Richard the Lionheart Receives Communion in Hagia Sophia (1849), by Gaspare Fossati

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Memorial in France at the base of Montségur. In 1244 on the 16th of March about 210-215 Cathars were burned alive on a pyre. Unrepentant in their faith it is said they mounted the pyre voluntarily. The site is now called the “Field of the Burned.”

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Today in 533, Roman general Belisarius set sail for the attack on the Vandal Kingdom of North Africa, beginning a 9 month campaign culminating in its defeat and annexation.

I am starting this one next on audible because its free, has anyone listened to this one?

The "Dark Ages"

Incredible to see what this kind of thing looked like.

Richard the Lionheart in the Battle of Jaffa in 1192. An oil on canvas painting by Henri Girardet.