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Topics: The “Dark” Ages or The “Brilliant” Ages? // Chronology // Was there a Dark Age? // Why did the activity pick up after the year 1000? // Roger Bacon and Thomas Aquinas // Why is the debate significant today? // The verdict on Christianity // The verdict on modernity and the Enlightenment // Why the Dark Ages matter to Christians and conservatives // The third form of conservatism, and my argument against it.
Transcription: Forthcoming
Sources:
- Anthony Esolen, Were the Middle Ages Dark? Professor at Thomas More College, Providence.
- Irving Kristol. Quoted in Rusher, 1995.
- Steven J. Lenzer, “Two Cheers for Postmodernism,” The Weekly Standard, October 25, 1999, p. 38.
- William Manchester, A World Lit Only By Fire, p. 5.
- William A. Rusher. The Ambiguous Legacy of the Enlightenment, University Press of America, 1995.
- Ernest van den Haag, in Rusher, ed. Ambiguous Legacy of the Enlightenment, p. 82. Professor at Fordham University.
- Bryan Ward-Perkins, The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization.
Medieval Timeline graphic.
Related:
- Stephen Hicks, “Religion and the Verdict of History.”
- Religion and capitalism? Alvaro Vargas Llosa
- St. Thomas Aquinas on whether sinners should be killed or heretics tolerated
- Christianity: Good or Bad for Mankind?
The complete series of Open College with Stephen Hicks podcasts.
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