"All of us men were born in the first man without vice, and all
of us lost the innocence of our nature by the sin of the same man.
Thence our inherited mortality, thence the manifold corruptions of
body and mind, thence ignorance, distress, useless cares, illicit
lusts, sacrilegious errors, empty fear, harmful love, unwarranted
joys, punishable counsels, and a number of miseries no smaller than
that of our crimes."--St. Prosper of Aquitania, quoted in
"Primitivism and Related Ideas in the Middle Ages"
This volume of essays, written by George Boas in collaboration
with Arthur O. Lovejoy, was originally intended to be the second in
a series of four documenting the history of primitivism and related
ideas about goodness in the world. Covering the Middle Ages, these
essays underscore the continuity between pagan and Christian
cultures with respect to concepts of primitivism and examine the
latter period's modifications of a group of favorite classical
themes. They demonstrate the growth of primitivism and
anti-primitivism from the first through the thirteenth centuries
and include a discussion of such subjects as the Noble Savage,
earthly paradise, the original condition of human beings, and
cynicism and Christianity. They also, as Boas suggests in his
preface, "drive the piles for a bridge between the Renaissance and
Classical Antiquity, although the superstructure itself remains to
be constructed."
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