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’tis but a scratch: fact and fiction about the Middle Ages

’tis but a scratch: fact and fiction about the Middle Ages

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Talking about popular conceptions of the Middle Ages and their historical realities. Join Richard Abels to learn about Vikings, knights and chivalry, movies set in the Middle Ages, and much more about the medieval world.

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