Charles Freeman
Charles Freeman is a freelance academic historian with a wide interest in the history of European thought and culture. He leads study tours of medieval and Renaissance Italy and his Holy Bones, Holy Dust, How Relics Shaped the History of Medieval Europe will be published by Yale University Press in April 2011. He is now working on The Reopening of the Western Mind, the fifth in a series of books related to the themes explored in his The Closing of the Western Mind.
Articles by Charles Freeman
Holy bones
The beauty of the reliquaries in the British Museum’s forthcoming Treasures of Heaven exhibition should not blind us to the cruelty of the medieval church, argues Charles Freeman
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Science, God’s Philosophers and the Dark Ages
The claims made by James Hannam regarding the birth of modern science in the Middle Ages do not stand up to scrutiny, says Charles Freeman
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Why God’s Philosophers did not deserve to be shortlisted for the Royal Society prize
James Hannam's book is a good read but presents a distorted view of the medieval period and the development of science that suits his Catholic agenda, claims Charles Freeman.
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The closing of the Christian mind
In the late fourth century political expediency led a ruthless Roman emperor to shut down debate within the Christian church. Charles Freeman explains
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