{"title":"Religious History — Church History","description":"\u003cp\u003eChurch history books for kids and teens, from first readers to high-school level. 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Linguistics too comes in for a critical re-evaluation as the author shows that supposed languages such as Latin and Greek were themselves constructs -- artificial writing systems -- and that true languages, 'demotics', were only written down from the Late Medieval period onwards. These conclusions allow the author to point out that the nature of civilisation itself has been misunderstood. Progress was perfunctory until the tools of literacy became widely available, when the languages spoken by most people could also be written by most people. After that, the author argues, progress was unstoppable. 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This important and creative book brings fresh information and insights to bear on fundamental issues of cross-cultural interaction.\"\u003cb\u003e--William Chester Jordan, Princeton University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This valuable book supports the view that medieval Jews in northern Europe, Iberia, and other Mediterranean societies were open to the style and iconography of their Christian neighbors, despite the protest of Jewish and Christian authorities. While other books on medieval Jewish economic activity, religious customs, and illuminated Hebrew manuscripts have made this case, no other book provides a comprehensive state of the field for researchers and general readers alike.\"\u003cb\u003e--Ivan G. Marcus, Yale University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph Shatzmiller\u003c\/b\u003e is the Smart Family Professor of Judaic Studies at Duke University. 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