The Course of Civilizations Silone Thomas College

Thomas College

and preaching

in what is supposed by the world to be the narrow constraint of religion

a metaphysical poet

and his threefold character of priest

The Course of Civilizations Silone Thomas CollegeBy Johan Huizinga The Course of Civilizations is a collection of essays by cultural historian Johan Huizinga on the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the concepts of history and culture. In his exceptionally creative approach to cultural history, Huizinga gives primacy of place to social relations, from which a culture derives its formative ideas and thus its unique character. The essays in this volume cover a fascinating range of topics, including