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Middle Ages 3: the High Middle Ages

Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong

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Aristotle and Aquinas - A Synthesis

Aquinas was a scholar originally from sicily. He is able to bring them together and create a very sophisticated theory that he believes recognizes the limitations of human nature, but also makes room for optimism in aristotle. aquinas dies tragically in an accident. And slightly after he dies, a few years after he s his teachings actually are condemned by the church. Ah, and they're condemned for a long period of time, but eventually that ban is lifted. So this is that's a little bit about the intellectual flourishing up through the 12 hundred s. Get a lot more complicated in the late middle ages and later scholasticism. But rather than get into that, i'll

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