Primitivism and Related Ideas in the Middle Ages

by George Boas

The Noble Savage, earthly paradise, the original condition of human beings, cynicism, Christianity . . .

"All of us men were born in the first man without vice, and all of us lost the innocence of our nature by the sin of the same man. Thence our inherited mortality, thence the manifold corruptions of body and mind, thence ignorance, distress, useless cares, illicit lusts, sacrilegious errors, empty fear, harmful love, unwarranted...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801856108
• ISBN13: 9780801856105
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher