#'the roman empire was the enlightened elite and europe only got violent and stupid after the huns got here'
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revisiting a book about the middle ages i read in high school and adored - principally when i knew much less about history
me reading this book in high school: "wow! this book is so good and accurate!"
me reading it now: "wow! this book sucks ass!"
#voxbox#william manchester why did they let you publish anything#'people in the middle ages didn't have a sense of self because only the aristocracy had surnames'#dude#the fuck#'the roman empire was the enlightened elite and europe only got violent and stupid after the huns got here'#this was paraphrased. here is an actual quote:#'the ethnic tide then settled in its conquered lands and darkness descended upon the devastated unstable continent'#i got 47 pages into this 300 page collection of racist inaccurate drivel before giving up#my last straw was his assertion that women en masse approved of christianity because it encouraged monogamy and fidelity between husband#and wife and then literally one page later is like 'christianity's early converts had divided loyalties because they were pagans who#rejoiced in lust' oh we just pulling shit out of our ass now okay#we're just saying shit#just for shits and giggles i looked up manchester and this book and its reception by other historians was uhhhhh not great#a book published in the 1990s still peddling shit that had fallen out of favor and deemed inaccurate by the 1930s#anyway if you ever wonder if william manchester's A World Lit Only By Fire is worth a read it's not#it sucks#don't read it
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