![]() ![]() ![]() Why did this knowledge reappear, and where had it gone during those intervening thousand years? Violet Muller answers these questions and more in her combination history / medieval travelogue, The Map of Knowledge. A millennium later, however, some of those texts would be rediscovered and go on to fuel the Renaissance, Enlightenment, and Scientific Revolution. While the debate over the extent of continuity between Rome and its various “barbarian” successor states will likely remain for quite some time, one sharp break that cannot be denied is the loss of countless texts, most notably those of the ancient scientists and natural philosophers. There has been much scholarly discussion in recent decades over how “dark” the European Dark Ages really were. The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found. ![]()
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