Any thoughts on particularly American feelings re: antique cathedrals, e.g. Henry Adams’s Mont St Michel and Chartres?
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I would advise that both you and Mr. Frum read a book (by a French historian, no less) called Those Terrible Middle Ages. Short version: in many ways, the Middle Ages were more progressive and enlightened than the early modern period that followed.
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And France was the intellectual heart of the Middle Ages.
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Well, perhaps from an intellectual standpoint, but you can’t deny what you feel when you see it with your own eyes.
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I would further add that the anti-Middle Ages sentiment is also from the 19th Century. Protestant historians attacked the Church by painting the Middle Ages as a barbaric time of Catholic domination. The Renaissance was a far crueler period, when they literally invented Racism
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Proust on Monet's 30 paintings of the cathedral of Amiens:pic.twitter.com/gFUoi76qVf
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The Cathedral as a symbol of socialism, Elizabeth Emery:pic.twitter.com/P8Tp4jucLA
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Yes and you can love those who loved the middle ages not wisely but too well, without loving the middle ages. Anyway it was a beautiful building, is a beautiful ruin, and will be a beautiful building again.
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