Dustin Duncan’s Reviews > Eros and Magic in the Renaissance > Status Update

"Our civilisation is born of the conjunction of many cultures whose interpretations of human existence were so at variance that a huge historic upheaval along with a fanatic faith were necessary to achieve a lasting synthesis. I. That synthesis, matters of diverse origin underwent a reconversion and a reinterpretation marked by traces of the predominant culture of the period: the culture of a conquered people..."