From World History: The Human Experience. The Early Ages. Teacher Wraparound Edition. Mounir A. Farah and Andrea Berens Karls. New York: Glencoe McGraw-Hill, 2003.
322: “The Crusades accelerated the transformation of western Europe from a society that was crude, backward, and violent – showing littler cultural and technological advancement – to a civilization that exhibited some early features of modern Western civilization. Towns grew, trade expanded, and learning and the arts thrived.”
The Victorians are responsible for this viewpoint. God I hate the Victorians. More to the point, I can't believe this is in a textbook from 2003. Though I shouldn't be surprised.
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325: “Troubadours appear in scenes of romance, a novel idea in medieval times.”
What? And Daphnis and Chloe is what, chopped liver?
2 comments:
Please don't hate the Victorians! That was my area of specialization for my Ph.D.--and the Victorian period is fascinating!
Sorry Lisa!
I dislike what the Victorians have done for medieval studies. But they do leave us a very important cultural legacy.
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