Saturday, January 07, 2023
They Never Existed
Lucien Febvre (1878-1956), The Problem of Unbelief in the Sixteenth Century: The Religion of Rabelais, tr. Beatrice Gottlieb (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982), p. 165:
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But are we still inclined to believe that "people of the Middle Ages," all of them all the time, were so charitable that they believed absolutely everything? Those poor "people of the Middle Ages"—what a sad picture of them has been painted for generations. Luckily for them, they never existed.
