Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science, and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe
 

Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science, and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe

by Thomas Cahill

After the long period of cultural decline known as the Dark Ages, Europe experienced a rebirth of scholarship, art, literature, philosophy, and science and began to develop a vision of Western society that remains at the heart of Western civilization today.

By placing the image of the Virgin Mary at the center of their churches and their lives, medieval people exalted womanhood to a... (read more)

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SUMMARY: As the subtitle indicates, Cahill uses examples such as Hildegaard of Bingen and Eleanor of Aquitaine as precursers to the feminists of today, human reason and alchemy changing both theology and science, and the art of Giotto di Bondone and Francis of Assisis creche giving rise to the arts as we know them, to make the case that in the medieval dawns the modern.
COMMENTS: Written in his usual highly readable
style, Cahill once more makes history come alive. An added bonus in...

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