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Today’s rampant inequality began in the Middle Ages

Banking, trading, and capitalism found their roots in medieval Europe. As a new exhibition shows, people were just as divided over them as we are now. In Death and the Miser, a Dutch painting from around 1485, a hideous skeletal figure—a medieval version of the grim reaper—comes knocking at a man’s …

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