The problem is that Cahill does not seem to know anything about the Middle Ages. Now, he has decided, it’s time to show that the Middle Ages weren’t a backward, dark era in history. His laudable goal is to demonstrate how times and places denigrated by recent historians have contributed a great deal to the formation of the modern world. Mysteries of the Middle Ages is part of Cahill’s “hinges of history” series, which began with How the Irish Saved Civilization. As I have put my manuscript together, I have sometimes felt I was not so much writing a book as sewing a gigantic quilt, full of disparate and even clashing remnants.” Unfortunately the result is decidedly flawed, with some pieces badly basted in and others missing entirely, leaving gaping holes in the material. At the beginning of the third section of Mysteries of the Middle Ages Thomas Cahill states, “The Middle Ages are a great jumble.
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