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0 pointsJackFr3y ago0 comments

Well it was a kind of hand wavy pronouncement on my part.

With respect to the ‘Fall of Rome/Dark Ages’ narrative I had Pico della Mirandola and Edward Gibbon in mind.

Considering their takes on monasticism, I suppose monasticism as the savior of civilization was actually a much later add on.

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bslorence3y ago

> a much later add on.

Yeah that's what I was thinking too. I'm going to re-read Canticle soon-ish but I wonder to what extent Miller endorses even the latter. I feel like his concerns were much more immediately spiritual than cultural. I'm thinking particularly of the scene where the main character of whichever volume meets the Pope up-close and is taken aback to see that his garments are moth-eaten and threadbare.

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0 pointsJackFr3y ago0 comments

Well it was a kind of hand wavy pronouncement on my part.

With respect to the ‘Fall of Rome/Dark Ages’ narrative I had Pico della Mirandola and Edward Gibbon in mind.

Considering their takes on monasticism, I suppose monasticism as the savior of civilization was actually a much later add on.

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bslorence3y ago

> a much later add on.

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