the "carolingian renaissance" is cope from medievalists pushing way too far against "dark age" stereotypes and inventing a gasp of modernity where none exists. they're ashamed that the people they study had different values than them https://t.co/UnXo5c1zKC

— alice maz (@alicemazzy) June 14, 2023

I think this is right on. It’s hard for anyone to believe that others have and have had radically different ways of thinking and being in the world. Historians are no less immune to this bias than anyone else.