Texts in Context:Timeline of the Highand Late Middle Ages By Gabriel Blanchard This timeline covers the High and Late Mediævum, defined for our purposes as falling more or […]
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In fourteen hundred and ninety-two, the globe was changed irrevocably, forever.
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As the fifteenth century proceeded, a new wind was blowing out of the east, for both evil and good at once.
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Analogy is one of the oldest, most prevalent devices of rhetoric; as it is written, “But without a parable spake he not unto them.”
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At the same time as a high tide of mysticism in England, the synthesis of Christendom was collapsing, thanks in part to its founder, the papacy.
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In this topos, we are dealing not just with “how to use a dictionary” but with “how to link two minds in the realm of being.”
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The Hundred Years’ War and the Wars of the Roses are infamously complex, so here’s an inattentive summary.
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As rhetoric is a complement to dialectic, so the topos is a complement to the syllogism. (Thrilled yet?)
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Though the topic is complex, the lesson is simple: To understand statistics, we should first learn how to.
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The sophisticated, prosperous world of the High Middle Ages was brought down almost singlehandedly by one of the smallest things in existence.
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