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Title: "History" is not so clear cut...
Review: EVERYONE in the church was unabashadly corrupt for 1000 years, NOTHING was invented during the same time period, and then ... Wala ... Da Vinci and the humanists arrive and Europe - now unshackled by the church - explodes into a flourishing and modern society. The author manages to fit the entire period into his own tidy little box of prejudices, and in the process ignores all of the past 50 years of scholarship on the period in doing so. I'm no expert of history, but I know that it is never quite that simple - people tend to be complex and you get the good mixed with the bad. The writer is certainly an entertaining storyteller, I would just prefer he not write in a way that purports it to be fact.... If you have an axe to grind with the Catholic Church, this is your book - if not, don't waste your time.
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