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dehro
2014-04-02, 01:26 AM
So, yesterday Jacques Le Goff (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/01/influential-french-historian-jacques-le-goff-dies)passed away.
On one Hand, it does saddens me, on the other hand, sharing this news on Facebook prompted moving reactions from a much larger number of People than I anticipated. Either the world is full of closet history-geeks or I have routinely underestimated My friends' cultural achievements and interests.
Either way, I'll rise a glass to the man who almost singlehandedly showed me that the Dark ages weren't so Dark at all.

Killer Angel
2014-04-04, 07:13 AM
I love history's books, but once i've tried to read "the man of the middle age", by Le Goff, and I've found it exraordinarily boring.
Meh, probably it was my fault. :smallfrown: