Word: medievales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bearers of the Word. In their own way, the medieval universities carried on the tradition. Like Plato's Academy, they were free "because their allegiance was to the Truth, as it was given to them to perceive it, and not to the community." Far from smothering discussion, the Christian...
Just as, 14 centuries earlier, they had borrowed the essentials of their nationhood from Asia-the writing and art of China, the advanced mores of Korea, the ethic of Confucius, the religion of Buddha -the Japanese in the Meiji period borrowed the makings of a second way of life, and...
The purging of imperialistic textbooks and the broadening of public education has improved a system which even before the war achieved a literacy rate of 97%. Women have the vote and use it (about 18 million in last week's election), though many probably voted the way their husbands...
This helpful hint is offered by a 12th century bestiary, compiled by an anonymous monk and dusted off by British Novelist T. H. White (The Sword in the Stone). The work is a charming illustration of how medieval man's other-worldly eye rested on the wonders of nature...
With proper medieval pomp and ceremony, the University of Bologna's top academicians and some important guests, e.g., U.S. Ambassador to Italy Clare Boothe Luce, Italy's Education Minister Giuseppe Ermini, gathered in the high-ceilinged Aula Magna last week to inaugurate a new addition to one of...