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Jiang argues that around the year 1300 Europe would have looked barbaric, censored, anti-learning, and hopeless to observers from stronger civilizations such as Baghdad, China, or the Mayan world.
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Middle Ages
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "So, let's go to the year 1300. In the year 1300, there are many places in the world. Okay? In the Middle East, there's..."
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Jiang says the church's emphasis on temporal power and obedience rather than spirituality helped limit the imagination of medieval Europe, and he adds that common modern views of the Middle Ages are anachronistic.
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"So, let's go to the year 1300. In the year 1300, there are many places in the world. Okay? In the Middle East, there's..."
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"Okay. So I'm trying to make a point here. Okay? The point is that in the year 1300, if you were a Mayan and..."
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"...answer your question for now okay because our conception of the Middle Ages is uh anachronistic okay we're looking at it from our lens..."
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"...like the fact of like how many reigns are in the middle ages and how many of them are alive and how many of..."
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"in middle ages you can't okay so it's trying to imitate the real world as much as possible"
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"...Would. Say. Some. Like. Really. Classical. Music. Like. Really. In. The. Middle. Ages. But. Maybe. Not. That. Really. Yeah."
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"...here is actually something I learn in medievalism. So during the Middle Ages, even the late Middle Ages, love, when used in this context,..."
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"But the courtly love tradition is one part of the Middle Ages. It's not all the Middle Ages. The whole idea of a feudal..."
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"...is um this is year 1300 and donna is like the middle age right so 35 or 40 and he is in a shadowed..."
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"...okay so do you understand like donnie right now in his middle age he is lost in the forest because of his fear okay..."
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"...honest. Like, a lot of people say bad things about the Middle Ages. I agree. Middle Ages, bad place to be compared to now...."
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"All right? So, for people at this time, in the Middle Ages, this is a revolution. We don't think this is a big deal..."
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