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Title: A historical study in itself
Review: While this book may have shifted the historian consensus on how decent, capitalistic, and God loving Stark's ever-shifting definition of Dark Ages was, it seems to be more of a symptom of the far-right's attempt to rehabilitate 800 years of theocratic oppression.While I understand that this attitude is currently out of favor, in 20 years when the consensus shifts back people will point to this book as the ultimate manifestation of this curious aberration in scholarly thought. Anyone who has taken a serious glimpse at commerce in the Classical era is well aware that Stark's "faith-based capitalism" was not even a shadow of what came before until the late-16th century (right around the time the church began to wane, curiously enough!)
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