The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith & the Fall of Reason
Charles Freman
432 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0965493067
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Language: English
Publish: January 1, 2002
ChristianityEuropean HistoryHistoryMedievalNonfictionPhilosophyPoliticsReligionTheologyWorld History
A monk in the black-and-white habit of the Dominicans sits in a niche set within an elaborate columned edifice crowned by a vault. Carved on the panels either side of him are fasces, rods bound together, a symbol of authority that reaches back through the history of ancient Rome to the Etruscans.