medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Fri, 11 Oct 2002 14:23:19 -0700
Al Magary <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Tom Shippey, the reviewer, says [in part]:
>
>"One thing which Eco does pointedly and continually is to remind
>us all of the time when Europe, for all its dissensions and
>competing dialects, was an international community, united in
>Catholic Christendom, scholastic method and Latin learning.
Oh yes, scholastic method and Latin learning are certainly sufficiently characteristic of Kiev and of Constantinople in the later 13th cent. (which is when I suppose Eco's book is set) to warrant citing them as unifying factors for a "Europe" qualified neither geographically nor linguistically nor culturally. Possibly Shippey means (and perhaps wrote, only to have his expression truncated by someone at the TLS) "Western Europe." But as actually disseminated his statement is historically inaccurate and likely to offend persons whose European antecedents are not primarily those of the "Latino-German West" identified later in the review.
Best,
John Dillon
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