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Originally Posted by Bookpossum
Not sure I agree with you, desertblues. I don't think that Greenblatt claims that this one text was responsible for everything that came after its discovery, but it would surely have been of huge interest and a stimulus for new ways of thinking once it started being disseminated, admittedly among a relatively small group of educated people.
And I think that Greenblatt has done a great deal of research in the area he is discussing; but of course it is just one bit of the Medieval and Renaissance periods, in a few countries in Western Europe.
Check out the footnotes and references if you haven't got to them yet - or do you flick back and forth? I must admit I find that hard to do in an ebook, and tend to do a chapter at a time of footnotes.
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Yes, I'm only halfway through, but I think I will not be able to change my mind very soon, because a lot of what he says about the Middle Ages goes against what I've studied about this period.
I do like the description of the search for manuscripts though.
Well....on with the rest of the book.
