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Matthew’s 2025 Year in Books
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Matthew Gabriele
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“Scientists can measure the oxygen isotopes in dental enamel to determine where in the world long-dead people were born. From the Bronze Age through to the medieval period, we’re finding people buried in British graves who were born in Asia and Africa. That number peaked, unsurprisingly, during the Roman period, but never falls to zero throughout the Middle Ages.”
― The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe
― The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe
“Not only (supposedly) was he carried off to the gates of Hell by demons and only rescued by the apostle St. Bartholomew, Guthlac was threatened physically by non-Christian peoples, wild beasts, and duplicitous fellow monks.”
― The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe
― The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe
“Too often, because we have the advantage of writing from our own present, from their future, we think of history as necessarily hurtling toward some predestined conclusion. But it never works like that.”
― The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe
― The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe
Topics Mentioning This Author
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Beyond Reality:
What are you reading in February 2022?
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18 | 31 | Feb 28, 2022 11:35AM | |
| Sci-fi and Heroic...: What have you been reading this February? | 90 | 62 | Mar 01, 2022 12:20PM | |
| Non Fiction Book ...: The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe (Feb 10 - Mar 10, 2022) | 46 | 53 | Mar 16, 2022 04:02PM | |
| Around the Year i...: Kahlia's 2022 plan | 4 | 60 | May 05, 2022 08:30PM | |
| Non Fiction Book ...: The Greeks: A Global History (Aug 1 - Sept 30, 2022) | 21 | 28 | Sep 22, 2022 04:09AM | |
| Non Fiction Book ...: Cynda Can't Control Herself 2022 | 53 | 72 | Dec 08, 2022 10:31AM | |
| Reading Tracking: Read 20,000 Pages | 16 | 2 | Dec 27, 2022 11:48AM | |
| Non Fiction Book ...: May / June 2023 BoTM - Crusaders: The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands | 60 | 76 | Jul 08, 2023 12:36PM | |
| Nonfiction Readin...: * February 2024 Member's Choice - The Bookseller of Florence by Ross King | 29 | 18 | Feb 20, 2024 04:59PM |
