Historical blindness
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Augustine writing at his desk in a 15th century from Urbino, Vatican, BAV, Urb.lat.72
This late-medieval Italian illustration of St Augustine writing at his desk highlights two of our many misconceptions about pre-modern cultures:
that these cultures were wholly different from ours (this is the first step towards a second, which says that anything of va…
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