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The Closing of the Western Mind by Charles Freeman · Booklabria

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The Closing of the Western Mind

HistoryHistoire

The Closing of the Western Mind

Name: The Closing of the Western Mind
Author: Charles Freeman

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First published: 2002
Language: English
Editions: 3

Synopsis

How the early Christian Church bent the intellectual climate of the Mediterranean world from one of active and questioning inquiry to an encouragement of the subordination of the mind to authority and acceptance of incomprehensibility as the will of God.

Subjects: History
Histoire
Christianity
Influence
Intellectual life
Middle Ages
Set in: Europe
Time: Middle Ages, 600-1500; Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600; 476-1492; To 476

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