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But judging from catholic monasticisms earliest practice, one would hardly have guessed the enormous impact on the outside world that it would come to exercise. The valid parts of that christian history, especially the very early church, the early middle ages in europe, and the best of protestantism, need to be preserved. This course is a survey of western civilization from ancient times to 1689, including the major political, social, economic, and intellectual factors shaping western cultural tradition. This organic unity of western culture is so strong that even the modern developments of extreme nationalism have been incapable of creating any real cultural and spiritual autarky. Jacob is a wellknown scholar in early modern european history, and a member of the american academy of arts and sciences. The west, to them, is nothing more than a mirage, or to put it in classical terms a chimera. Literacy became almost universal, encouraging the growth of books. The errors are entered into a database, with information about how they occurred. Book 1 of 4 in the story of western civilization series, this reading workbook discusses the origin and development of early civilizations.
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