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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Good book on the roots of European Culture. Hard to follow as some of the references are a little obscure. Traces the history of Europe through the Roman age to the end of the 11th century. Detailing the influence of the Catholic Church, the Barbarians and the Greek classical culture. As a Protestant I always tended to look down on the Catholics with their icons and saint worship, but in the early days just after the fall of the Roman empire that faith was the only thing that held the torch of Jesus Christ and I think that as Protestants we should know this early history of the church better. ( ) (final paragraph only transcribed here) This is much the best of those of Christopher Dawson's works which I have read. The faults which mar the others are completely absent: he keeps resolutely to the point and really thinks out what he is trying to say, instead of sheltering behind polysyllabic generalities. The great merit of the book is that it correlates cultural and political history, and thus illuminates both. (notes written 1955) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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In this work, Christopher Dawson concludes that the period of the 4th to the 11th centuries, commonly known as the Dark Ages, was not a barren prelude to the creative energy of the mediaeval world. Instead, he argues that it is better described as ""ages of dawn"", for it was in this rich and confused period that the complex and creative interaction of the Roman Empire, the Christian Church, the classical tradition and barbarous societies provided the foundation for a vital, unified European culture. In an age of fragmentation and the emergence of new nationalist forces, Dawson argued that if ""our civilization is to survive, it is essential that it should develop a common European consciousness and sense of historic and organic unity"". But he was clear that this unity required sources deeper and more complex than the political and economic movements on which so many had come to depend, and he insisted, prophetically, that Europe would need to recover its Christian roots if it was to survive. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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