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Sadly I haven't had time to read much Middle Age literature but I want to get around to the following. Sainte-Augustine's Confessions Dante's Divine Comedy Pet
by jschem 12y ago
Sadly I haven't had time to read much Middle Age literature but I want to get around to the following.
Sainte-Augustine's Confessions
Dante's Divine Comedy
Petrarch's My Secret Book
I remember Sainte-Augustine by his quote "Grant me chastity and continence, but not yet" and it would be interesting to see how a hedonistic turned into one of the most famous and revered characters of the Church. Dante's Divine Comedy tells about the scholastic tradition and how the leading thinkers were introducing pagan thought into their discourses. Petrarch book shows the start of the Renaissance and how current human thought can add to secular knowledge.
- winestock 12y agoOne of my Latin teachers told us that "the Church would give her right arm" for a copy of the book (the title escapes me) that convinced St. Augustine to stop being a skeptic and become a Christian. That book is lost.