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This is a 3 page paper that provides an overview of Cook and Herzman's "The Medieval World View". Strengths and weaknesses of the text are exposed. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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this reason, deep historical analyses of the Medieval era have been of paramount interest to historians, providing what seem to be critical insights into the era in which contemporary Western
society was formed and shaped, and gleaning those insights from a perspective that seems at least somewhat detached from the assumptive and stereotyping problems associated with attempting to view world
history as a whole through a Western lens. "The Medieval World View" by Cook and Herzman is an excellent example of focused historical scholarship that provides insights into a key
point in history; however, it still highlights key problems in Western scholarship vis a vis the colonized and the colonizer. However, this isnt to say the work is without its
merits, as this brief critical overview will explore. The primary conceit of Cook and Herzmans work is that it focuses on one central aspect of Medieval society, notably the world
view or Weltungschaang of the Medieval people, as opposed to the more materialist history of Medieval Europes military battles and political evolution. In varying senses, this is both a strength
and a weakness. For instance, presenting an ideological history of a people from another culture and time, even if that culture is a Western culture, is always problematic because of
the inherent violence in cultural history. As Benjamin has stated, virtually any document of preserved history represents an act of barbarism as that document has been preserved due to adhering
to the dominant cultural paradigms of the time, subsuming and burying documents which achieved a less dominant societal position. This problem is evident in the text when one analyzes the
authors that are most represented via quotations of their works, and analyses of their impact on history. The familiar figures of Augustine and Charlemagne, for instance, who have had no
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