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Dante, Chaucer and up to the Global 14th Century

These writers are rarely seen side by side:

Italy: Dante – Divine Comedy

Persia: Saadi – Rumi – Hafez

England: Chaucer, Canterbury Tales

China: Romance of the three Kingdoms

Japan: The Tale of the Heike

North Africa: Ibn Khaldun, Muquaddimah

Big question: How do civilizations tell the story of themselves?

1400th Century

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