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Peter Brown Quotes

born 1935 Ireland

Peter Robert Lamont Brown (C.E.1935 – living), Irish historian and academic.

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The "golden age" is the exception, normal history is "grey".

We Europeans have guiltily built the fracture between Europe and Islam, while instead the roots of these two worlds have been intertwined for a millennium.

We must candidly admit that we have created a 'dark age' to feel superior to the past.

Benedict XVI is right when he says that the West has "become Christian". The equation "Christian=Western", historically, is blasphemy.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Peter Brown (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.