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From your bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization, a remarkable look at how medieval thinkers created the origins of modern intellectual movements.
After the long amount of decline known as the Dark Ages, medieval Europe experienced a rebirth of scholarship, art, literature, philosophy, and science and began to build up a vision of Western society that remains in the centre of Western civilization today, from the entry of women into professions that had always been closed to them to the first investigations into alchemy that would form the basis of experimental science. On visits to the great cities of Europe-monumental Rome; the intellectually explosive Paris of Peter Abelard and Thomas Aquinas; the hotbed of study that was Oxford; and the incomparable Florence of Dante and Giotto-acclaimed historian Thomas Cahill brilliantly captures the spirit of experimentation, the colorful pageantry, and the passionate quest for knowledge that built the foundations for today's world.
