In their introduction to this anthology, James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin remind us that "no area of the past is dead if we are alive to...
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Apr 08, 2009
Robert
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On one level, nothing beats this: going straight to the source, reading what the ancients had to say about their lives, their world, their thoughts. Bernard of Gui describing the Inquisition, not as someone trying to justify it to posterity but simply as a leader of that movement describing what it was he did; or Roger Bacon laying out the principles of what we would come to call the scientific method--while at the same time expressing his own deep faith, and his certainty that this method he w
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May 11, 2011
Kajah
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This eclectic collection of text from the medieval times is at turns fascinating, funny, horrible, and illuminating. "Notes upon first encountering some Turks" (or something like that tittle) accounts a skirmish of Franks with certain Saracens and their combination of disdain and admiration, and complementary to this is the "Upon First Encounters with a Frank" by an Islamic author: both of these excerpts are fun, personal enlightening sketches of what one of the most impor
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Jun 20, 2011
Russell
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Excellent collection of quotable quotes from the era of Chivalry, a little before and a wee bit after as well. Looking for Guido Cavalcanti? He's here. How about Lambert of Hersfeld? Look no further!
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