Sharpening Minds!
Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History
Fat Belly Films
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, as universities spring up across Europe and begin to power a new age, Neil travels to Florence, in Italy, to meet Dante as he completes his masterpiece.
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings fellow time travellers, always lovely to have you with me. Before this week's episode, |
| 0:06.4 | big thanks to all the people who support the podcast series by signing up to the Patreon.com site. It's that |
| 0:13.2 | input, that financial input from the |
| 0:15.0 | Patreon presence that makes everything else possible. |
| 0:18.8 | So if you're already a member, thank you. If you're not a member yet and you're inspired to be one just go to |
| 0:25.3 | Patreon.com find my site by name the Lolliver you have to part with a little bit of |
| 0:29.9 | cash but you become a member and you get access then. You get behind the velvet rope you might say. |
| 0:35.5 | Weekly question and answer session with me. |
| 0:38.4 | Vodcasts, podcasts, podcasts, competitions, periodic rants about the state of the world. It's a like-minded bunch of |
| 0:45.6 | questioning curious types, all of it underscored by an interest in history, so come |
| 0:49.8 | aboard. That'll do for the advert. It's now time to strap yourselves into the time machine as we set off on the next stop on my love letter to the world. |
| 0:57.0 | Record microphone. Action. The sharpening of mines across Europe ramps up a gear. Universities take root throughout the continent. First, Wallonia in Italy, then Oxford in England, |
| 1:15.8 | and Salamanca in Spain, followed in short order by Cambridge, Padua, Coimbra. |
| 1:22.2 | The thinking of the Christian Church is in the background and very much ever |
| 1:25.6 | present. But ancient classical learning also feeds into the mix via Islamic scholars. An intellectual ferment fusing the ancient classical world |
| 1:37.2 | with Christian thinking occurs, a strong marriage of ideas that will stand the test of time is born. |
| 1:45.0 | Endeavoring to understand history in hopes of illuminating the future. |
| 1:52.0 | I'm Neil Oliver and this is my love letter to the world. |
| 1:57.0 | I know in the last episode it was 12 in the last episode it was 1281 as we travelled with Kubla Khan's mighty |
| 2:08.5 | invasion fleet towards Japan to be thwarted at the last by Kamikaze. Where are we this week? |
| 2:15.1 | Morning Paul. This week sees a swapping continents. We're leaving Asia and heading |
| 2:20.8 | to Europe. We've also crossed over into the next century. It's now |
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