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The closing of the Western mind : the rise of faith and the fall of reason / by Charles Freeman.
New York : Vintage Books, 2005Edition: First Vintage Books editionDescription: xxiii, 432 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781400033805 (paperback)
- Geschichte 30-640
- Civilization, Western
- Christianity -- Influence
- Church and state -- Europe -- History
- Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
- Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
- Civilization, Western -- Classical influences
- Hellenism
- Europe -- History -- To 476
- Europe -- History -- 476-1492
- Europe -- Intellectual life
- Christentum
- Auswirkung
- Politische Kultur
- Wissenschaftliches Denken
- Römisches Reich
- Europe -- History -- To 476
- Europe -- History -- 476-1492
- Europe -- Intellectual life
- CB245.F73 2005
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | CB 245 .F73 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 5134133 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Describes the first alliance of church and state in the fourth century, marked by the Roman emperor Constantine's conversion to Christianity, and how this decision irrevocably compromised the Roman Empire's intellectual tradition of rationalism.
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