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In "Society Must be Defended", Michel Foucault makes a big deal of the medieval myth that all European nations were descended from Troy. Is there any evidence of this myth being taken seriously by medieval Europeans, such as using it to argue against intra-European wars?

by /u/MaxThrustage in /r/AskHistorians

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