Ian Mortimer's argument that the Medieval era is far more important and influential than historians and the general public think, and that the western world in 1500 is far more similar to 2000 than it was to 1000. Sometimes selective, but a strong argument on many topics, looking beyond technological advances to show how the language of 1500 would be intelligible to us today, but not to someone from 1000, that their approach to religion and individuality has more in common with us, and even their housing and some comforts (stone/brick houses with chimneys, windows, living in towns).
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