Medieval America

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National Review:

Free thought was not prized at universities, and wealthy lords ruled over their inferiors. Are we talking about then or now?

Pessimists often compare today’s troubled America to a tottering late Rome or an insolvent and descending British Empire. But medieval Europe (roughly A.D. 500 to 1450) is the more apt comparison.

The medieval world was a nearly 1,000-year period of spectacular, if haphazard, human achievement — along with endemic insecurity, superstition, and two, rather than three, classes.

 

The great medieval universities — at Bologna, Paris, and Oxford — continued to make strides in science. They were not unlike the medical and engineering schools at Harvard and Stanford. But they were not centers of free thinking.

 

Instead, medieval speech codes were designed to ensure that no one questioned the authority of church doctrine. Culturally or politically incorrect literature of the classical past, from Aristophanes to Petronius, was censored as either subversive or hurtful.

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In Defense of Medieval Europe.

 

 

BTW there are those (Dr. Philip Daileader for one) who maintain Medieval Age didn't end until well into the 16th century.

 

Vid by Dr. Daileader

 

Good Stuff!

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@Valin - that was great!!!

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@Valin - that was great!!!

 

 

I wonder what will be written about us today in (say) 500 years?

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@Valin - that was great!!!

 

 

I wonder what will be written about us today in (say) 500 years?

 

 

I wonder what the world might be in 500 years

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@Valin - that was great!!!

 

 

I wonder what will be written about us today in (say) 500 years?

 

 

I wonder what the world might be in 500 years

 

 

Said someone in 1516.

 

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