The Missionary Syndrome

Crusader and Pacific Northwest Religious Expansionism

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2107685
AutoresRobert I Burns (University of California, Los Angeles, autor de correspondencia)
Año1988
Volumen30
Número2
Páginas271-285
Fecha de publicación1988-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaComparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s001041750001519x
OpenAlexW2107852509
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas8

The search for medieval parallels and for medieval roots in New World history has become a fascinating genre. My own university has produced one of the major figures in this field, Lynn White, Jr., and has recently honored another, Luis Weckmann. With the Columbus centennial rushing toward us, we may expect more exercises in their spirit. Such an approach is not farfetched or whimsical. We are the heirs of medieval technology and mentalities. In both, as White has reminded us, the United States may be 'closer to the Middle Ages than is Europe.' And the great historian Shelomo Goitein, after spending most of his working life in pre-Nazi Germany and then in Israel, upon moving to the United States was startled to recognize the medieval flavor of our social structures and mentalities; as a lifelong student of the Middle Ages, he found that 'one feels quite at home' here

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