Ever since I read Barbara Tuchman’s book about the Black Death, A Distant Mirror, in 2020 (my notes
here), I’ve been enamored of the idea that modernity began not in the 16th century, with the Age of Exploration, as in conventional accounts, but in the 13th (which was also an age of exploration
1). Apparently I’m not alone in thinking this.
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