Word: lewises
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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. Of all historical cliches, few have been more persistent than the notion that between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance stands history's Great Divide. From his new rostrum as professor of Medieval and Renaissance English literature at Britain's University of Cambridge, C.S. (The Screwtape Letters) Lewis...
Virgil to Eliot. For a historian such as Gibbon (1737-94), says Lewis, it was only natural to see the chasm between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. "The partial loss of ancient learning and its recovery at the Renaissance were for him both unique events . . . But we have lived...
Seneca to Freud. Lewis would say the same of the Christianizing of Europe, a process once regarded as "unique [and] irreversible." "But we have seen the opposite process . . . Roughly speaking, we may say that whereas all history was for our ancestors divided into two periods, the pre-Christian and the...
In politics, art and religion, says Lewis, the old frames have been shattered. The biggest change of all, he believes, is not finished yet-the change born of machines. "How has it come about that we use the highly emotive word 'stagnation,' with all its malodorous and malarial...
Behind the powerful attacks of Captain Dexter Lewis, the Crimson Saturday took its eighth of 14 games with Williams since 1928 by a 7-5 score.