No one who would seek to think deeply about the Middle Ages and its
role in the formation of the modern world may neglect this book.
There is simply no other like it.
Medieval Essays is the mature reflection of one of the most
gifted cultural historians of the twentieth century. Christopher
Dawson commands the substance and the breadth of cultural history
as few others ever have. He ranges from the fateful days of the
late Roman Empire to the final destruction of Byzantium, from the
rise of Islam to the flowering of western vernacular literature,
from missions to China to the caliphs of Egypt, from the tragedy of
Christian Armenia to complex religious realities of Christian,
Jewish, and Muslim Spain, from philosophy to literature, theology
to natural science. The very breadth of his canvas makes the
precision of his judgments and the vitality of his analyses all the
more remarkable.
The Times Literary Supplement said of the original edition:
"These essays, though concerned with topics derived from a remote
past, are designed to display the relevance of those topics to the
problems and controversies of the present." The judgment is yet
truer today. Few, if any, studies of the Middle Ages are more
significant for understanding the cultural dynamics of the
twenty-first century. Fortunately, few are as readable,
illuminating, or challenging.
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