Mysteries of the Middle Ages The Rise of Feminism, Science, and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe by Cahill, Thomas - 2006

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New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2006. (2006), 343pp, illus., slight shelfwear to cover, contents clean.. Trade Paperback. Very Good -/No Jacket.

New York: Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, 2006. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 0x0x0. First printing. Minor edge wear. 2006 Trade Paperback. 343 pp. After the long period of cultural decline known as the Dark Ages, Europe experienced a rebirth of scholarship, art, literature, philosophy, and science and began to develop a vision of Western society that remains at the heart of Western civilization today. By placing the image of the Virgin Mary at the center of their churches and their lives, medieval people exalted womanhood to a level unknown in any previous society. For the first time, men began to treat women with dignity and women took up professions that had always been closed to them. The communion bread, believed to be the body of Jesus, encouraged the formulation of new questions in philosophy: Could reality be so fluid that one substance could be transformed into another' Could ordinary bread become a holy reality' Could mud become gold, as the alchemists believed' These… Read More