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课程名称：《欧洲的形成》 概要：本课程探讨伟大的英国天主教历史学家克里斯托夫·道森（Christopher Dawson）所著《欧洲的形成》一书，特别聚焦于被称为“黑暗时代”的早期中世纪，认为这一时期是欧洲文明的形成阶段。道森在20世纪历史学界中与阿诺德·汤因比齐名，被视为重要的“元历史学家”。在极端民族主义和现代极权主义意识形态冲击的时代，道森呼吁重新理解和振兴欧洲统一作为文明的精神、道德和智力基础。 课程中，我们将深入探讨“基础”这一章节，分析影响中世纪欧洲发展的一系列文化传统，包括古典希腊罗马传统、罗马帝国传统、罗马天主教会以及野蛮侵略者。这些文化传统的相互作用和融合，构成了后续中世纪欧洲的基础，有助于理解西方文明的历史根基。 通过这一课程，我们希望揭示出欧洲文明的基础，使学员对早期中世纪的文化融合过程有更深入的认识。
"...these ages which have not unjustly been called dark, are the most interesting of all, since they contain the germ of a thousand years of cultural development...". Christopher Dawson, The Formation of Christendom.The great British Catholic historian Christopher Dawson (1889-1970) belongs with Arnold Toynbee among the most significant "metahistorians" of the 20th century. In an era of crisis for Western civilization, when Europe was being torn apart by extreme nationalism and the modern totalitarian ideologies, Dawson called forcefully for understanding and reinvigorating of the spiritual, moral, and intellectual foundations of Europe´s unity as a civilization. Dawson is attentive to all aspects of history including the political, economic, artistic, and geographical. But in a time of growing secularization, Dawson is particularly notable for highlighting the central importance of religion for an understanding of the human culture complex. His classic text The Making of Europe takes the unusual focus of "the dark ages" (i.e. the early middle ages) as a formative period for European civilization. Dawson had a profound interest in epochs of "cultural fusion" which are on full display in this early medieval era. There is on the one hand the process of fusion between the classical Greco-Roman tradition and Christianity; and there is a gradual integration of the Roman and Germanic cultures, as well as others such as the Slavic and Celtic. In this course, we examine the section of this text called "The Foundations" which deals with the cultural traditions that will interact and determine the subsequent course of Europe during the Middle Ages- the Greco-Roman classical tradition, the Roman imperial tradition, the Roman Catholic Church, and the barbarian invaders. In doing so we hope this survey will shed light on the foundations of Europe, which is, in turn, the historical basis of Western civilization.Note- the image of Sainte Chapelle for the course comes from Pixabay (ian kelsall) and states it is free for commercial use.
