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Post by bjorn on Aug 18, 2009 15:51:50 GMT
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Post by bjorn on Aug 18, 2009 17:04:34 GMT
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Post by eckadimmock on Aug 19, 2009 0:06:52 GMT
Dan Jones in the Spectator seems to like it too. |
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Post by humphreyclarke on Aug 19, 2009 8:29:56 GMT
Seems like the reviews are positive every way I look, though none on new atheist sites as far. Dunno if there is anything for Nu Atheists to object to, especially since they have the 2 standard replies: 'well anything great that was achieved was done despite religion' and 'there might have been progress after 1200 but before 1200 there was a 900 year intellectual blackout caused by Christianity'. |
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Post by eckadimmock on Aug 19, 2009 11:20:37 GMT
Yes, James has got it all wrong. The Romans turned Christian and started oppressing the peace-loving and tolerant pagans of Europe. This continued until the enlightenment when someone invented science, which has been right about everything ever since.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2009 14:59:34 GMT
Yes, James has got it all wrong. The Romans turned Christian and started oppressing the peace-loving and tolerant pagans of Europe. This continued until the enlightenment when someone invented science, which has been right about everything ever since. We should ask Grayling; He knows it the best. |
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Post by James Hannam on Aug 19, 2009 17:14:09 GMT
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Post by bjorn on Aug 19, 2009 18:01:49 GMT
Ah, Davidjay is a gem ;D
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Post by jamierobertson on Aug 19, 2009 20:21:34 GMT
So who's this Ward-Perkins fellow then? And is James really arguing that the Middle Ages were "benign"?
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Post by humphreyclarke on Aug 20, 2009 8:25:03 GMT
Ward Perkins is an archaeologist who wrote a book on Europe from the 5th to the 8th century. What he was trying to do, with reference to coinage, tiles and pottery, is show that the transition from Roman to Germano-Roman in Western Europe was not the benign mixing of peoples it was made out to be in some circles (E.U propaganda). In some areas -e.g Romano-Britain - a collapse occurred, in other areas closer to the Mediterranean there was more continuity. Davidjay's comment is therefore confused and irrelevant.
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Post by noons on Sept 14, 2009 4:07:19 GMT
All reviews so far have been positive. I'm still waiting to see some one-star reviews on Amazon where you can feel the anger just by looking at it.
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Post by timoneill on Sept 15, 2009 23:19:48 GMT
I just ordered my copy, so look out for a review on Amarium Magnum in the next few weeks. |
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Post by James Hannam on Sept 16, 2009 11:46:23 GMT
I just ordered my copy, so look out for a review on Amarium Magnum in the next few weeks. Thanks Tim. Is the book out in Australia? The only review I'm waiting for with more trepidation that yours is a certain Edward Grant who is reviewing it for the journal Metascience. Best wishes James |
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Post by timoneill on Sept 17, 2009 20:01:19 GMT
I just ordered my copy, so look out for a review on Amarium Magnum in the next few weeks. Thanks Tim. Is the book out in Australia? I haven't seen it on the shelves here in Sydney. If there's a bookshop that will stock it it's Abbeys - they have several shelves of Medieval stuff. So far their online catalogue isn't listing it. But it can take a couple of months for British books to finally make it out here to the colonies. I think they send them on disused convict ships or something.  |
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Post by himself on Oct 1, 2009 5:32:07 GMT
A copy, autographed no less, has arrived here in the colonies by her majesty's mail. Looking forward to its reading.
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