GOD AND REASON IN THE MIDDLE AGES
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0-511-03262-5
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
2004
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loginMost who study the political, social, institutional, andintellectual developments in Western Europe during the MiddleAges find it easy to believe that “Western civilization was created inmedieval Europe.” George Holmes, the author of that sweeping state-ment, argues further that[t]he forms of thought and action which we take for granted in modern Europeand America, which we have exported to other substantial portions of the globe,and from which indeed, we cannot escape, were implanted in the mentalities of ourancestors in the struggles of the medieval centuries.1
