Middle Ages, cathedrals convents burned like tinder; imagining a medie — Umberto Eco, Postscript Name Rose

Postscript to the Name of the Rose Umberto Eco

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In the Middle Ages, cathedrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie in the Pacific without a fighter plane shot down in flames.

Umberto Eco, Postscript to the Name of the Rose

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