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From: js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag)
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: Re: Innovation in the Middle Ages and today
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Date: Tue, 14-Jan-86 13:29:23 EST
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> Jan's right in pointing out that the deinstitutionalization (whew --
> what a word!) of the state from antiquity to the Middle Ages was
> a prod to local innovation.  But the other prod to innovation in
> the Middle Ages was the development of a highly institutionalized
> Church which preserved the learning of antiquity and built an
> educational system, with universities at its summit, to teach and
> expand that learning.
> 
    Surely you can't be talking about the same church that burned the
library of Alexandria and tried Galileo?  Evidently not.  Just what
church *are* you talking about?
> 
> Tony Wuersch
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Jeff Sonntag
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