Word: medievales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Of Saints & Heroes. Abbé Pierre and the cruel cold have brought a new mood to Paris. He has even established a modern version of the medieval institution of sanctuary by persuading the police to promise that no one in a shelter shall be asked for his identity papers. But...
MEDIEVAL ESSAYS (271 pp.)-Christopher Dawson-Sheed & Ward ($3.50).
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...
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...
The Waiting Room? The word medieval still holds a connotation of cobwebbed armor, bad sanitary facilities and picture-postcard Gothic cathedrals. Although 20th century historians deal more kindly with medieval man than did their Victorian forerunners, he still seems even further removed from modern mentality than the classic Greeks and...