This history of homelessness, running from the manacle and the man, losing the dead, all explained and compensated for and legitimized by a new religion, this is the foundational history of the thing that was to become Europe. Before the Muslim incursion from the south, this is how Europe was being conjured and converted. Hundreds of years later Europeans fought the Muslims with this homeless religion in hand and then purified southern Europe by reinforcing the religion at the point of the sword and the heat of the cleansing flame. Knowing this is fundamental to being able to answer the
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