But in your book, the impression that I get is that this is wrong. They’re called the Dark Ages and they’re seen as grim, diseased, brutal times in which to have lived. Vice: The Middle Ages, especially the early years of that era, get a really bad rap. He seems to be on a mission to remedy the greatest crime (among many) that academia has ever committed against all of us, which was rendering the best stories in the world boring. Cahill writes history the way it should be written-with great attention and care to the personalities and the details of everyday life. Over the course of books such as How the Irish Saved Civilization, Sailing the Wine-Dark Seas, and Mysteries of the Middle Ages, which is newly released in a paperback edition, historian Thomas Cahill has done more for making ancient history readable and entertaining than all the cobweb-covered professors sitting in all the universities in the whole world put together. We haven’t really talked about the Romans yet.
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