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It does catch me up short when people who I consider well-educated show both a lack of knowledge of and a concern for history.

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one of my new favorite books, in terms of teaching how to think yourself into the time period and really care *why* thousands and tens of thousands of people thought whacky things were totally normal, is _Strange Histories: The Trial of the Pig, the Walking Dead, and Other Matters of Fact from the Medieval and Renaissance Worlds_ Ok, so I teach medieval history, so I'm biased, but this is one of the few accessible books that really teaches how not to reject other cultures or eras as *weird* and instead work out why the stories mattered and why they happened.