Medieval fascination with female virginity. One begins sixty-five pages into the volume with a focus on exploring the Splendid will be the flowers compared with the seeds.” While thisīeginning seems odd and very circular, it helps the reader understand “byĬontrast: how different are the seeds from the soil that nourished them, how
That bridged the gap between the antique and medieval periods. Than starting at the beginning of the Middle Ages, Cahill begins with a Preludeįocused on late antique Alexandria, Egypt, before moving into an Introduction The goal of this series is to “retell the story of the Western world as the story of the great gift-givers, those who entrusted to our keeping one or another of the singular treasures that make up the patrimony of the West.” Accordingly this book sought not so much to document historical events as to introduce the reader to the complex world of the Middle Ages and tell the story of how the “combined sources of Judeo-Christian and Greco-Roman cultures” shaped our modern culture. Thomas Cahill’s book Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science, and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe is the fifth volume of his acclaimed Hinges of History series.
0 kommentar(er)
