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Today's episode, Paris when it sizzles, the condemnation.

Given that you're still listening to this series of podcasts, you're presumably at least open to thinking

that medieval philosophy might be interesting, or even better thoroughly convinced that it is very

interesting indeed. But of course not everyone agrees. Prejudice against

it derives above all from the assumption that thinkers of this period were constrained

by the iron shackles of theology.

Any green shoots of genuine innovation or free thought

would have been trampled by the church before they could blossom,

leaving us with a dreary succession of unoriginal scholastics. Of course we know by now that this would be at best a crude exaggeration

since there were plenty of heated debates amongst the scholastics themselves to say nothing of philosophy outside of

philosophy outside the university setting.

Still, there were clearly restrictions on the freedom of thought

in medieval Christendom.

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