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Medieval stories from Europe’s eastern frontier

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The late Kievan Rus experienced a political fracturing that lead to a tilt toward representative governments, especially in Novgorod. Why is it that these systems never took hold?

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It took me a long while (I am slow) to understand why the Byzantines used to rhetorically declaim any decline in learning as a disaster on par with barbarian invasion, but this is why. It was the shared educational experience of the elite – however apparently impractical or

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During the High Middle Ages Georgia experienced a Golden Age. Mongol invasions & rebellions would spell an end to this period of regional supremacy; however, Georgian art & culture remains influential to this day.