The Mediaeval Mind: a History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in the Middle Ages, Fourth Edition. 2 Volumes Complete
Description
This is a set of both volumes I and II of the fourth edition. The Middle Ages! They seem so far away; intellectually so preposterous, spiritually so strange. Bits of them may touch our sympathy, please our taste; their window-glass, their sculpture, certain of their stories, their romances,-as if those straitened ages really were the time of romance, which they were not, God knows, in the sense commonly taken. Yet perhaps they were such intellectually, or at least spiritually. Their terra-not for them incognita, though full of mystery and pall and vaguer glory-was not the earth. It was ...
ISBN(s)
0674560000, 9780674560000
