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The Gloaming of Christendom

by Katherine Kelaidis

Around the beginning of the twentieth century, historians started to consider that they had gotten the Middle Ages all wrong. The glimmering light of antiquity had not been extinguished in a moment, like a snuffedout candle.

Katherine Kelaidis

A research associate at the Institute of Orthodox Christian studies, Cambridge, and a member of the Editorial Board of The Wheel. A former resident scholar at the National Hellenic Museum in Chicago. She is a professional historian, trained at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of London.

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