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Dante Alighieri (1265 – 1321) the Florentine author of the medieval masterpiece of fantasy-fiction known as the Divine Comedy provides the modern observer with a unique insight into the world-view of a thinking man at the height of the Age of Faith. This means that his work provides a resource that should be of interest to anyone who, like for example Richard Dawkins, is concerned ...
It started ordinarily enough, as affairs often do. Abelard was a brilliant academic, in Paris making a living teaching philosophy to rich kids. During his lifetime he was to become the most famous man in the world partly, but not entirely, because of his philosophical prowess. Heloise was his student. She lived in the house of her uncle Fulbert, also an academic. It was there that Abelard had
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What first attracted you to the period or periods you work in?My interest is in the Middle Ages, particularly the Twelfth Century. I think what first attracted me, in my school days, was sheer weirdness of the period: bizarre beliefs, arcane knowledge, alchemy, plagues, Gothic architecture. Later I came to realise that in ...