The History of the Middle Ages
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In the rest of Christian Europe the same pious duties were being performed, and in equal num- ber, for in those two centuries the movement which put a fourth part of the soil into the hands of the clergy was at its * This dark picture could easily be relieved by touches of another sort.
There was no peculiar fear of the approaching end of the world con- nected with the year 1000. It was a common feeling for two or three centuries of this period. See New Englahder and Yale Review, vol xii p. 369....— Ed. - ' Chap. XVI.] CIVILIZATION. 225 height. It was at that time a useful measure, though it had bad results later on.
At the same time life returned to the intellectual world.
Silvester II. set the example. While yet a simple monk of Aurillac, under the name of Gerbert, he went to study liter- ature, algebra, and astronomy, among the Mohammedans of Spain, and to open up to Christian Europe a new source of knowledge, Arabian science ; he collected a large library, constructed globes, and contrived a pendulum-clock, such a wonderful thing to the multitude, that he passed in their eyes for a magician who had sold himself to the devil.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
In the rest of Christian Europe the same pious duties were being performed, and in equal num- ber, for in those two centuries the movement which put a fourth part of the soil into the hands of the clergy was at its * This dark picture could easily be relieved by touches of another sort.
There was no peculiar fear of the approaching end of the world con- nected with the year 1000. It was a common feeling for two or three centuries of this period. See New Englahder and Yale Review, vol xii p. 369....— Ed. - ' Chap. XVI.] CIVILIZATION. 225 height. It was at that time a useful measure, though it had bad results later on.
At the same time life returned to the intellectual world.
Silvester II. set the example. While yet a simple monk of Aurillac, under the name of Gerbert, he went to study liter- ature, algebra, and astronomy, among the Mohammedans of Spain, and to open up to Christian Europe a new source of knowledge, Arabian science ; he collected a large library, constructed globes, and contrived a pendulum-clock, such a wonderful thing to the multitude, that he passed in their eyes for a magician who had sold himself to the devil.
What to read after The History of the Middle Ages?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Victor Duruy to read onlineMoreLess
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