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Were the Lights Turned Off During the “Dark Ages?”

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1. To understand the negative effects upon scholarship of rigid thought control by church or state.

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    Roy J. Shephard

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Shephard, R.J. (2018). Were the Lights Turned Off During the “Dark Ages?”. In: A History of Health & Fitness: Implications for Policy Today. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65097-5_5

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