The Awakening : A History of the Western Mind AD 500 - 1700 by Charles Freeman

The Awakening : A History of the Western Mind AD 500 - 1700 by Charles FreemanA monumental and exhilarating history of European thought, from the fall of Rome in the fifth century AD to the Scientific Revolution thirteen centuries later. The Awakening traces the recovery and refashioning of Europe's classical heritage from the ruins of the Roman Empire. The process of preservation of surviving texts, fragile at first, was strengthened under the Christian empire founded by Charlemagne in the eighth century; later, during the

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