Where are we now? Where are we headed? Share your thoughts with us! Volume Four The Age of Faith "Four elements constitute Civilization -- economic provision, political organization, moral traditions, and the pursuit of knowledge and the arts. This volume surveys the medieval achievements and modern significance of Christian, Islamic, and Judaic life and culture.
It includes the dramatic stories of St. Francis, St. Thomas Aquinas, Roger Bacon, and many others, all in the perspective of integrated history. The greatest love stories in literaure -- of Heloise and Abelard, of Dante and Beatrice -- are here retold with enthralling scholarship.
The Age of Faith covers the economy, politics, law, government, religion, morals, manners, education, literature, science, philosophy, and art of the Christians, Moslems, and Jews during an epoch that saw vital contests among the three great religions and between the religious and the secular view of human life.
All the romance, poverty, splendor, piety and immorality, feudalism and monasticism, heresies and inquisitions, cathedrals and universities, troubadours and minnesingers of a picturesque millennium are gathered into one fascinating narrative. This volume, and the series of which it is a part, has been compared with the great work of the French encyclopedists of the eighteenth century. The Story of Civilization represents the most comprehensive attempt in our times to embrace the vast panorama of man's history and culture.
This, then, is about YOU. Join our group daily and listen to what Durant and the rest of us are saying. Better yet, share with us your opinions. If you use subscriptions don't forget to subscribe to this new discussions. Joan Grimes Malryn Mal April 9, - am Death and Funerals When my mother died in , my brother age 11 , two sisters 8 and 5 and I were not allowed to go to the funeral. We had been taken the day before to say goodbye to Mama at the funeral home.
