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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Superb collection of essays on Medieval Europe, originally given I believe as a series of lectures, and looking at the Middle Ages through lenses historical, sociological, and theological. Dawson is an expert narrator and his books are always well written and full of facts you don't find in most histories. ( ) 3143. Medieval Essays, by Christopher Dawson (read Jan 3, 1999) This was also a book I picked up for next to nothing at a rummage sale last summer and which I thought I should read since I had paid a good nickel or dime for it. Dawson is a famous English historian, but these essays are erudite and on subjects one can get interested in only if one works at it. I find essays are like short stories--over before one gets caught up in them. I did not get much out of this book, and I cannot say my dime was profitably spent. (final paragraph only, of a very long set of notes, transcribed here) Some valuable pearls concealed in a great deal of dross. The author seems quite unable to resist pursuing every interesting side-issue,and the argument is far more difficult to follow than the foregoing summary might suggest. (For an example of exceptionally confused argument, see section on Roger Bacon: 89 ff. And for an example of a verbal smokescreen covering a failure to explain his terms, see p. 81.) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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A comprehensive collection of essays from the Middle Ages, this text ranges from the fateful days of the late Roman Empire to the final destruction of Byzantium, from the rise of Islam to the flowering of western vernacular literature, from missions to China to the caliphs of Egypt, from the tragedy of Christian Armenia to complex religious realities of Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Spain, from philosophy to literature, theology to natural science. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)270.3Religions History, geographic treatment, biography of Christianity History of Christianity Charlemagne; Papacy vs empire (787-1054)Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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