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Should I Put This On RF?
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Kelly of the Phoenix
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Strikes me as ridiculously biased.
In response to what? Quoting something that is likely inflammatory sans context and sans proper citation? Seems reasonable to me assuming, of course, that the intent was benign clickbait.
It is benign
I've been reading this book and putting bits of it up for comment on RF. I showed some passages to my Catholic BF last night and he took partial issue with some of it. I expect all authors have biases so I put it on RF to see who can best challenge it.
It's certainly not a populist history though, and is a tome of a book.
exchemist
Veteran Member
I suppose, though, that any revolution is likely cause enough upheaval to make “culture stagnate” for a while. Things tend to go backwards for a bit.
It also invites the question of what is the measure of culture being used here. Quite a lot of cultural artifacts from that period might have been religious in nature……
Which book? I might want to put it on my reading list.
All writing is biased. It is impossible to write an unbiased history, especially if there are modern consequences of that history (which there usually are).
As to specifics, it would be nice to have a reference to the archeology and precisely which aspects of culture stagnated. Since the church was often the link to a literary past and encouraged a number of the arts, it is possible that its withdrawal would lead to some types of 'stagnation'. As @exchemist notes, a revolution of this sort is likely either to lead to a decrease in cultural activity or a burst in such (both happen historically). Such revolutions are generally not culturally neutral.
All writing is biased. It is impossible to write an unbiased history, especially if there are modern consequences of that history (which there usually are).
As to specifics, it would be nice to have a reference to the archeology and precisely which aspects of culture stagnated. Since the church was often the link to a literary past and encouraged a number of the arts, it is possible that its withdrawal would lead to some types of 'stagnation'. As @exchemist notes, a revolution of this sort is likely either to lead to a decrease in cultural activity or a burst in such (both happen historically). Such revolutions are generally not culturally neutral.
The Middle Ages: Amazon.co.uk: Johannes Fried, Peter Lewis: 9780674055629: Books
Buy The Middle Ages Illustrated by Johannes Fried, Peter Lewis (ISBN: 9780674055629) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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632 pages.
I've been (slowly) working my way through the Cambridge history of the Middle Ages. So this looks like light reading.
You mean the 3 volume set? I have thatI've been (slowly) working my way through the Cambridge history of the Middle Ages. So this looks like light reading.
It's brilliant.
Oh! Looks like the same author has a book on Charlemagne.....adding it to my list as well.
You mean the 3 volume set? I have that
I have a 3 volume illustrated set and an 8 volume non-illustrated set (New Cambridge History--which goes to 1500AD). I'm in the third volume of the 8 volume set (900-1024).
Wikipedia -> Johannes Fried
Fried studied at the University of Heidelberg, where he obtained his doctorate in 1970 and his habilitation in 1977. He was professor at the University of Cologne 1980–1983 and has held the Chair of Medieval History at the University of Frankfurt am Main since 1983. He was a visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton from 1995 to 1996.
Fried is a member of several learned societies and was president of the Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands (German Society of Historians) from 1996 to 2000.
^ not someone to be casually dismissed.
I have the illustrated ones. I love them.
Yes.
So I believe calling the above paragraph simply 'bias' is an unfair, simplistic analysis. Yet without his archaeological sources I can neither fully accept nor reject it.
So here we are!
Augustus
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I thought that was the point of RF.When has that ever stopped anyone on RF?
haha! It's certainly true that a whole lot of "but I think..." happens here
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Augustus
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Speak fir yourself.
Personally I only comment on threads if I am amongst the world’s foremost experts on the topic.
As luck would have it, that’s pretty much most of the threads here, at least the ones I want to comment on, but we can’t all be that fortunate I suppose…