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[redbird]

There seem to be endless things I can do instead of reading about Charlemagne, or any other aspect of medieval Europe. It's not Europe per se--I just don't seem to be in the mood to refresh my memory and then summarize. I can provide three pieces of trivia about any of the topics I have, but that doesn't add up to a plausible overview. People reviewing for a test don't need to know that the Black Death may have been a hemorrhagic plague, they need to know what it did to European society. Okay, maybe they need both--nobody told me. I'm sure they don't need to know that Charlemagne slept with a pen under his pillow, in the hope that he'd wake up some morning knowing how to read and write.

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[wandra.livejournal.com]

Lovely!

*grin*

*makes note of book*