Suggested book: Dominion
This book by Tom Holland immediately caught my attention. Was I attracted by the darkish hard cover? The title ''Dominion, The Making of the Western Mind''? In any case, by reading a few pages, standing in a bookstore in Amsterdam, it took only a few minutes to decide this would be my next pick for reading a non-conventional book for the story of the making of the western mind since the birth of Christianity. And what a relief... Strongly suggested.
Here's an excerpt: ''Formed of a great confluence of traditions - Persian and Jewish, Greek and Roman, it has long survived the collapse of the empire from which it first emerged, to become, in the words of one Jewish scholar, 'the most powerful of hegemonic cultural systems in the history of the world'. In the Middle Ages, no civilisation in Eurasia was as congruent with a single dominant set of beliefs as was the Latin West with its own distintctive form of Christianity.''
Order the book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dominion-Making-Western-Tom-Holland/dp/1408706954
Here's an excerpt: ''Formed of a great confluence of traditions - Persian and Jewish, Greek and Roman, it has long survived the collapse of the empire from which it first emerged, to become, in the words of one Jewish scholar, 'the most powerful of hegemonic cultural systems in the history of the world'. In the Middle Ages, no civilisation in Eurasia was as congruent with a single dominant set of beliefs as was the Latin West with its own distintctive form of Christianity.''
Order the book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dominion-Making-Western-Tom-Holland/dp/1408706954
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