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Students will discover that the medieval period, commonly known as “the Dark Ages,” was anything but dark as these books chart the maturation of the liberal arts, the advances of science and culture that accompanied a renaissance of learning, and the development of political theory and practice as various states and kingdoms are established.
The 50 chapters include:
*Accounts of religious developments
*Documents from the court of Charlemagne that chart the spread of imperial power and the flowering of the Carolingian Renaissance
*Historical chronicles that relate political developments in what will become England and France
*Poetic and literary texts that help provide national identities
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Rooted in the Renaissance humanists’ clarion call to return ad fontes, this brand-new upper school humanities curriculum promises to bring students “back to the sources.”
Unlike most contemporary approaches to history, which reflect the fashions and biases of the fleeting present, the Humanitas series offers students something more substantial.
Following C. S. Lewis’ stout defense of reading primary sources in “On the Reading of Old Books,” Humanitas will help “persuade the young that firsthand knowledge is not only more worth acquiring than secondhand knowledge, but it is usually much easier and more delightful to acquire.”
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