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The High Middle Ages
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bookshelves: audio, history-stuff, libby-app, read-in-2024, the-great-courses
Feb 13, 2024
bookshelves: audio, history-stuff, libby-app, read-in-2024, the-great-courses
The European High Middle Ages.
I mean, there was an entire world going on and this only covers part of it. But then again, the "dark ages" are kind of reserved for this little chunk of the world.
It all works out in the end, I say.
I enjoyed this because I enjoy stuff about the Middle Ages. Most of it I'd heard before while listening to other books or lectures, but I did really get a lot out of the religious parts - like the stuff about Augustine & Thomas Aquinas. One thing I hadn't thought about was that the Inquisition gets a bad name because they tortured people. BUT.
All law enforcement used torture back then.
And the church actually put limits on what the inquisitors could and couldn't do to get confessions, with the end result being the accused hopefully recanting their heresy and coming back to the church. <--with penance
It seems far less scary when you look at it through that lens.
Another thing that might be worth a mention, since this is a lecture and Philip Daileader is the lecturer, is the way he speaks.
Lots of sighs and pausing. between. each. word. for. emphasis.
I didn't mind it so much but it might be a deal breaker for you.
Recommended for fans of the High Middle Ages!
I mean, there was an entire world going on and this only covers part of it. But then again, the "dark ages" are kind of reserved for this little chunk of the world.
It all works out in the end, I say.
I enjoyed this because I enjoy stuff about the Middle Ages. Most of it I'd heard before while listening to other books or lectures, but I did really get a lot out of the religious parts - like the stuff about Augustine & Thomas Aquinas. One thing I hadn't thought about was that the Inquisition gets a bad name because they tortured people. BUT.
All law enforcement used torture back then.
And the church actually put limits on what the inquisitors could and couldn't do to get confessions, with the end result being the accused hopefully recanting their heresy and coming back to the church. <--with penance
It seems far less scary when you look at it through that lens.
Another thing that might be worth a mention, since this is a lecture and Philip Daileader is the lecturer, is the way he speaks.
Lots of sighs and pausing. between. each. word. for. emphasis.
I didn't mind it so much but it might be a deal breaker for you.
Recommended for fans of the High Middle Ages!
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I wish I was high on middle agesIn all seriousness, at first I thought this was a book about drugs from the middle ages and got eyebrow raisingly excited.
Dean wrote: "I wish I was high on middle agesIn all seriousness, at first I thought this was a book about drugs from the middle ages and got eyebrow raisingly excited."
That would be a fun book! Why has no one thought of that yet?
Robert wrote: "Did you say HIGH Middle Ages?"
This is the dawn of splifts. <--very important
Did you say HIGH Middle Ages?