Word: dawson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MEDIEVAL ESSAYS (271 pp.)-Christopher Dawson-Sheed & Ward...
...defense plans and frontierless trade patterns. Beyond this, the idea of a unified Europe tends to be a rainbow-colored vision; most Europeans, educated in mutually contradictory nationalisms or ideologies, specify no satisfactory universal basis for it. One of the few who attempt the statement is British Historian Christopher Dawson. "The source of the actual sociological unity which we call Europe," Dawson says flatly, "is Christian culture." His lifelong argument: without educating themselves in their universal Christian cultural foundations, Europeans will never grasp why their continent can be more than a congeries of geographical neighbors, serviced by the same wagonlit...
...Dawson, now 64, has spent the last 40 years examining how Christianity got itself into Europe's bloodstream, and how and why it made the body grow. He has focused his studies on Europe's Middle Ages, a period that many European historians skip over lightly.* Although a Roman Catholic himself, Dawson does not take the tack of the conventional Catholic medieval apologist, who regards the period as a happy but vanished Golden Age when there were no Protestants around. For Historian Dawson, the Middle Ages can be studied only as a fusion of religion and culture...
Medieval Essays is a handy sampler of Dawson's view of history. He writes with the smooth mixture of clarity, scholarship and happy metaphor that characterizes good British historians, and the imperturbability of a man content with a limited audience. (His 15 books have had an average U.S. sale of 3,600 copies...
...bottom three men in the varsity lineup all turned in victories to seal the Crimson win. Number seven man Ed Rose gained a 5-15, 15-10, 17-16, 15-11 win over Navy's M. Ricketts and Guy Paschal swept Midshipman Ed Dawson by 15-13, 15-12; 15-7 scores. Al Stone took the varsity's sixth win of the day over M. A. Desseyn by 15-8, 13-15, 15-10, 13-15, 15-11 count...