Author: Will Durant Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Religion, Philosophy
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ISBNs: 9780965000758 0965000753 |
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The Age of Faith surveys the medieval achievements and modern significance of Christian, Islamic, and Judaic life and culture. Like the other volumes in The Story of Civilization, this is a self-contained work, which at the same time fits into a comprehensive history of mankind. It includes the dramatic stories of St. Augustine, Hypatia, Justinian, Mohammed, Harun al-Rashid, Charlemagne, William the Conqueror, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Richard the Lion-Hearted, Saladin, Maimonides, St. Francis, St. Thomas Aquinas, Roger Bacon, and many others, all in the perspective of integrated history. The greatest love stories in literature--of Heloise and Abelard, of Dante and Beatrice--are here retold with enthralling scholarship.
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