All the old views—the Renaissance aesthetic contempt, the Enlightenment’s anticlerical sneers, the economic snobbery of the early twentieth century—are still alive. All are the products of ignorance and bias, the more surprising because the proponents of these views abhorred those evils and thought they were free of them. All are primarily negative. All are quite wrong.
» Origins of the Medieval World - William Carroll Bark, 77

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