08-10-2007, 06:39 PM
Quote:Whoops! That should have read "medieval"
I think Sharon has the right idea. Anything that makes you read more on a subject can't really hurt.
I thought the treatment of the Huns was a little contrary to what the general view is. But !!!!
Robert makes a good point when he says Jones goes to the other side of the coin about the ,how shall I say. Non Roman cultures.
Perhaps its time for a more even handed look at the subject
I have never seen any of the TV series but will have to give them a look.
No doubt my friendly Barnes and Noble has them on their shelves.
Jon R.
Maybe he does go to the other extreme than that normally taken, but isn't that a good thing, in that it gives both extremes and allows a more realistic picture to emerge, somewhere between the two?
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"I have described nothing but what I saw myself, or learned from others" - Thucydides, Peloponnesian War
"I have just jazzed mine up a little" - Spike Milligan, World War II