{"id":56,"date":"2007-08-31T20:19:25","date_gmt":"2007-09-01T03:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=56"},"modified":"2020-03-05T13:15:37","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T19:15:37","slug":"mysteries-of-the-middles-ages-the-rise-of-feminism-science-and-art-from-the-cults-of-catholic-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=56","title":{"rendered":"Mysteries of the Middle Ages, The Rise of Feminism, Science, and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Thomas Cahill, 2006<\/p>\n<p>I found this book to be very dissatisfying.&nbsp; I bought the book with high expectations that it would provide me with insights into various developments in the Middle Ages.&nbsp; Instead, the author seemed to want to show me what he knows about selected topics.&nbsp; I seemed to feel less enlightened after reading the book than before I started.<\/p>\n<p>Cahill uses a very conversational tone in his prose but then throws in words from time to time&nbsp;from his large vocabulary that don&#8217;t seem to fit very well.&nbsp; His&nbsp;depictions&nbsp;of various art sites are reminiscent of a tour guide as he goes from one piece of artwork to another.<\/p>\n<p>The book is gorgeously printed with ornamental Old English type and many beautiful illustrations.&nbsp; It&#8217;s too bad that the content doesn&#8217;t do justice to the appearance. <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"2 1\/2 stars\" src=\"\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-2-5.gif\" alt=\"2 1\/2 stars\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Thomas Cahill, 2006 I found this book to be very dissatisfying.&nbsp; I bought the book with high expectations that it would provide me with insights into various developments in the Middle Ages.&nbsp; Instead, the author seemed to want to <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=56\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[20,16,22],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-history","tag-non-fiction","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2557,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/2557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}