Terry Jones on the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (and plugging his new series on BBC2).

It was the medieval world that dragged us into the future, not the
reactionary Renaissance.

Originally in The Observer.

First read this morning over breakfast in The Nation, Bangkok.

Outdone E. Equability

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