It’s time for Game of Thrones essays again, I guess, providing easy news hooks to medievalists everywhere.
This one from El Pais is excellent, if in Spanish (but Google translate does ok). It takes about the diversity and complexity of the medieval world, and I love this pullquote:
La unidad de la Edad Media es falsa, como lo es la de la antigua, de la moderna y qué decir de la contemporánea.
Only moderns think the medieval was somehow unified and “dark.” READ THE WHOLE THING!