Category Archives: Middle Ages
Conservatives Promote Stupidity, How and Why
In the comments, Matt astutely notes about Republicans’ willful promotion of stupidity: Rob, You may remember how conservatives at one time were writing all those books about how l “liberal” education policies were making American children stoopid (Closing of the … Continue reading
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Women, Men and Racial Loyalty
tulio asks: Here’s another question. Is the stigma just as strong amongst white females? It’d be best to hear an answer from one of them, but I don’t think too many white females post in here.Do they ostracize one of … Continue reading
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Primitive Communism, Feudalism, the Fencing of the Commons and the Genesis of Capital
A far rightwing commenter disagrees that there existed primitive communism in the past, as theorized by Marx. Instead, he opines that primitive man lived, absurdly, in some condition called “the free market.” You could say primitive man was communal but … Continue reading
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Do the Yezidis Worship the Devil?
Repost from the old site. This is a very, very long piece, so be warned. But the subject, the Yezidi religious group, is extraordinarily complex, as I found out as I delved deeper and deeper into them. They are still … Continue reading
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A Brief Look at the History of Art in the West, 300 BC – 1350 AD
Updated February 24. I added a few more things here. I’m just getting into the history of art, and most people don’t know the slightest thing about it either, so let’s take a little jaunt into art history and you’re … Continue reading
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PC Attacks the Dark Ages
What exactly is meant by the Dark Ages? It seems the term has fallen out of favor as non-PC and judgmental. Some refer to it as the entire Middle Ages period from the Fall of Rome in 450 to the … Continue reading
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The Roman Catholic Church in the Dark Ages
I don’t have time to do an in-depth research of the Roman Catholic Church in the Dark Ages, but during my research on the Lombard Family in Italy, I came away with the idea that during the Dark Ages the … Continue reading
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Do I Have Jewish Blood?
I am republishing this post with quite a bit of new information on Henry the Second, King of England, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen Consort of France, and the Lombard tribe and later royalty of Germany, Austria, Hungary and finally Italy. … Continue reading
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