Classicists vs medievalists

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AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 4 pts · 284d

It’ll be interesting when historians of the far future debate 20th-/early-21st-century America. The Manhattan/Apollo programmes/the development of most of computer technology/the freakin’ iPhone for Christ’s sake vs. premodern levels of religiosity/superstition/magical thinking.

Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 284d

It's both. Western Medieval was stagnant. Eastern Medieval wasn't.