[dmitriid]

Somehow "all available documentation about medieval France" somehow ended up being "oh, we don't know exactly, a lot is guesswork".

And that's France. What about Medieval Africa? The Americas?

Oh, we mostly burned that documentation because "it wasn't important". Right?

[gumby]

My understanding is that the jesuits burned the mesoamerican literature because they thought it was dangerous to their reign, not harmless. An appalling crime.