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Title: Standard Coverage of the Time Period
Review: I had hoped that this survey of the Middle Ages would enlighten the novice to the immense and terrifying power exerted by the Church over every aspect of life, but it didn't really give much perspective on this. Consequently it didn't serve my purposes well, and I found the commentators rather too sanguine about the Middle Ages, praising the tactical warfare of mounted knights (like adolescent boys) with virtually nothing critical to say about the superstitious, anti-intellectual, patriarchal, sexist and oppressive aspects of those times. One does better to watch The Name of the Rose.
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