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    Healing of the Gadarene demoniacs.

    Canterbury, circa 1200

    During the Middle Ages

    and extending

    into the early modern period,

    racial thought

    was used to explain differences

    between economic

    and social classes,

    especially

    the peasantry and the nobility.

    Some thinkers regarded

    the peasants

    as descended from Ham,

    the accursed son of Noah,

    and the knights from the

    Trojan heroes,

    who had presumably

    settle in England,

    Germany and France

    after their defeat.

    Louis Ruchames, 1969

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