I was a child of the 1950s and ’60s, but came of age in a medieval intellectual tradition. A boy from a medieval village, I first taught at a medieval university (Aberdeen). My mentor there had spent a scholarly lifetime in the Vatican archives assessing the church in late medieval Europe. Inspired by his definitive biography of the university’s founder, the reforming human (...)
June 15, 2012
Books
Blame It on Scotus
The Unintended ReformationHow a Religious Revolution Secularized SocietyBrad GregoryHarvard University Press, $39.95, 592 pp.
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