Thanks Wikipedia talk page for informing me about this beauty of absurd. Leaving aside the fact that there is nothing implying John's homoseuxality... including him on a list is that - it seems was to be "positive" is intriguing...

I wondered from where came the idea that Liupdrand of Cremona wrote that John XII died of apoplexy... argh, I guess I might edit wikipedia once...

I'd say that on this side of Atlantic we also have "impressive" hot takes

Considering THE Profesor looks at history in such simplistic way, I really don't see a reason to "cirticise" the reviewer's qualifications.

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Early Middle Ages

I don't have strength and time to go onto another rabbit hole but... Chronicon Turonense from Rerum Gallicarum et Francicarum scriptores is supposedly a repring of Veterum scriptorum text... so how this came to be:

Is this it? (from IA: archive.org/details/bibl...)

Hopefully, there will be interest in this CfP for next year IMC #Medieval #CFP
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