Contradictions, however, are part of life, not merely a matter of conflicting [historical] evidence. I would ask the reader to expect contradictions, not uniformity. No aspect of society, no habit, custom, movement, development, is without cross-currents. … No age is tidy or made of whole cloth.
—Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century, xxiii
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