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Universities came about in the High Middle Ages, so why didn't European kings begin attending them until (if I'm not mistaken) the 19th century?
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Why are many formerly Spanish-ruled Latin American countries notably corrupt while Spain itself (at least post-Franco) doesn't seem to differ significantly from its Western European neighbors in terms of corruption? (Repost)
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In the two times I've been to Spain, I was struck by the long stretches of nearly uniform, blocky, mostly residential brick buildings. When and how did such buildings come to be so widespread in Spain?
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Throughout Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), Kenneth Branagh's version of Victor Frankenstein wears facial hair that seems highly implausible for a well-to-do 1790's Western European man. How would a man of this description wearing such facial hair have been received by his peers?
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Considering how La Malinche was sold into slavery by her own people before associating with Cortés, have modern historians taken a more sympathetic view of her vis-à-vis the prevailing popular perception of her in Mexico as the consummate traitor?
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If early Gothic novels are any indication, British readers in the 1790s seemed to find bandits very scary. Were bandits still a genuine threat on British roads more than half a century after the era of the most infamous highwaymen?
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Do we have any indication as to whether Chaucer or his 14th-c. contemporaries could have understood an 11th-c. Late Old English text?
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The Canary Islands are just 62 miles off the coast of Morocco, so why and how had they remained isolated and unconverted to Islam when the Castilian conquest of the islands began in the early fifteenth century?
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