“She is in some ways the person who is closest to us of all of these people. Héloise, who became an Abbess, starred in the 12th century’s great love story, with Abelard, who became an Abbott. The two I point out, but there are many of them, are the secular figure, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and Héloise. You have female figures, for the first time, being in charge. “Feminism is really born in the Middle Ages. Each involved an entirely new way of seeing the world around us. Cahill says he was intent on tracking in Mysteries of the Middle Ages and the Beginning of the Modern World are feminism, science and art. But history is nonetheless full of lessons for us if we bother to look at them.” “The one thing that history never does is repeat itself exactly. It stretches through the 12th and 13th centuries, opening the way for Western culture’s Renaissance. Thomas Cahill, intrigued by what he calls the “hinges of history” including How the Irish Saved Civilization, takes special delight in the beginnings of the modern era. As humanity teeters on the brink of a radically new era yet unnamed, the birth of our “modern” world can be instructive.
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