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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (2213)	12/15/1999 8:59:00 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3246

I agree with you. I went through a period reading many different Medieval historians, as well as many original (translated) texts, and I idealized some too. The idea is as overwhelming as the great Gothic cathedrals; the reality was mixed. But there was, I think, a period when there might have been greater continuity and synthesis, if the French had not compromised the Papacy at Avignon, for example, or if the Black Death had not decimated the population and created widespread despair. On the other hand, I have read Duns Scotus and some other scholastics. There was, as far as I can tell, no worthy successor to Aquinas, until William of Occam, and he went along different lines......