Word: carlovingian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heroic Christianity is what Bernanos demands, and he thinks the elements for it are ready. Just as in 1000 A.D., when out of the waste and decline of two empires, the Roman and Carlovingian, the magnificence of Chivalry arose, a new kind of men may appear in his beloved France and throughout Europe. Bernanos puts his faith in the insurgence of these men. Profit and money have already become ridiculous to them; as for Freedom, "We are seeing liberty gradually disassociated from juridical definitions and becoming human again." In one of the exalted passages of his book he speaks...
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