Tradition
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Henry Osborn Taylor on the “Middle Ages”
Preface to the First Edition, 1911: The Medieval Mind (2 volumes), Vol.I, xi–xiv: The Middle Ages! They seem so far away; intellectually so preposterous, spiritually so strange. Bits of them may touch our sympathy, please our taste; their window-glass, their sculpture, certain of their stories, their romances—as if those straitened ages really were the time…
