Word: medievales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Those words have struck a note that has long been unfamiliar in the academic world. Today the U.S. university has fallen heir to much that once belonged to her peers in Europe. In the '30s, Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead was challenging it to "rise to its opportunity, and in...
Dawson challenges this idea of the medieval man's remoteness. Modern civilization, he says, owes far more to men like St. Augustine and Pope Gregory VII than is admitted, and medieval men deserve the credit for much that is attributed to earlier or later periods. The modern world, for...
The tragedy of a modern Western man's education, in Dawson's estimate, is the gap in his learning and understanding between the classical ages and modern times, between Plato and Isaac Newton. The gap was created, he thinks, because medieval culture was so intertwined with religion. Since...
Although Dawson, along with Dante and Langland, sometimes stops for a quiet tear over medieval man's passing, he is far more interested in communicating the worth of medieval man-his feeling for spirituality, his sense of social commu nity, his universal values-to his descend ants in modern...
Says Dawson: "The [medieval world] was always at grips with the problem of barbarism. It had to face the external threat of alien and hostile cultures, while at the same time it was in conflict with barbaric elements within its own social environment which it had to control and transform...