The Closing of the Western Mind
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The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason (2003) is a book by historian Charles Freeman
in which he presents the case that the vital Greek Traditions of rationality and science (natural philosophy) were suppressed and ultimately vanished in the West for a thousand years as a result of the rise of Christianity and the acquisition of political power by the Church, not to be rediscovered until the Renaissance.
Charles Freeman (historian)
Charles Freeman is a scholar and freelance historian specializing in the history of ancient Greece and Rome. He is the author of numerous books on the ancient world including The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason. He has taught courses on ancient history in...
in which he presents the case that the vital Greek Traditions of rationality and science (natural philosophy) were suppressed and ultimately vanished in the West for a thousand years as a result of the rise of Christianity and the acquisition of political power by the Church, not to be rediscovered until the Renaissance.