Still Another Renaissance?
Robert Sabatino Lopez
W5 7E have certainly gone a long way toward the full rehabilitation of Middle Ages since days when Oliver Goldsmith hardly dared include Dante, who first followed nature and was persecuted by critics as he lived, in his description brave new world polite learning. The outer works medieval citadel already crumbled under concentric attack. On one hand, Pirenne has shown that Roman institutions, economy, culture survived western Europe up to time Heraclius Mohammed seventh century. other Michelet's Burckhardt's Renaissance-with capital R-has been extended backward until it amalgamated, were, with Haskins' twelfthcentury renaissance, which turn traced causes deeply rooted religious, political, social stirrings late eleventh There still remained some three or four hundred years bleakness-but even this is so illuminated Carolingian Anglo-Saxon Ottonian wonders whether any meaning left term Ages. Indeed Liutprand Cremona knew more Greek than did Shakespeare, Goliardic poems were less othetworldly Paradise Lost. Read Alfons Dopsch uncritically,
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