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Episode one seventy seven – part three

Jenn sat down with Matthew Gabriele and David Perry to discuss their new book, THE BRIGHT AGES: A NEW HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL EUROPE. They talked why “Dark Ages” isn’t a useful term for the medieval period, the supposed “fall” of Rome (spoiler alert: Rome never fell!), and the complexity and richness of medieval culture.