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"In the Medieval mind, there was also no awareness of time." This breathtakingly ludicrous statement appears on page 22, and it represents everything that is horrifying about this book. (Just for starters, try telling any farmer of any era that he has "no awareness of time" and you'll end up in the manure pile, literally or figuratively.) Read Regine Pernoud's "Those Terrible Middle Ages: Debunking the Myths" (published in May 2000) or go to the library and pull out the 38-year-old "Horizon book of the Middle Ages" instead. Manchester's vituperation of the era borders on hysteria.