- Title Pages
- List of Figures and Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Foreword
- The Cultural Values of Europe: An Introduction
- 1 The Axial Age in World History
- 2 The Judeo-Christian Tradition
- 3 The Greco-Roman Tradition
- 4 How Europe Became Diverse: On the Medieval Roots of the Plurality of Values
- 5 Freedom, Slavery, and the Modern Construction of Rights
- 6 The Value of Introspection
- 7 Rationality – A Specifically European Characteristic?
- 8 The Affirmation of Ordinary Life
- 9 Inner Nature and Social Normativity: The Idea of Self-Realization
- 10 The Status of the Enlightenment in German History<sup>1</sup>
- 11 The Dark Continent – Europe and Totalitarianism
- 12 Value Change in Europe from the Perspective of Empirical Social Research
- 13 The Realities of Cultural Struggles
- 14 The Contest of Values: Notes on Contemporary Islamic Discourse
- 15 Does Europe Have a Cultural Identity?
- Glossary
- Afterword
How Europe Became Diverse: On the Medieval Roots of the Plurality of Values
How Europe Became Diverse: On the Medieval Roots of the Plurality of Values
- Chapter:
- (p.77) 4 How Europe Became Diverse: On the Medieval Roots of the Plurality of Values
- Source:
- The Cultural Values of Europe
- Author(s):
Michael Borgolte
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
This chapter addresses how Europe became diverse and whether and in what sense the events of the third to eighth centuries produced Europe as a specific entity. It also questions whether the discovery of diversity in the Middle Ages might not have something to do with the plurality of Europe's cultural values.
Keywords: Europe, diversity, Middle Ages, plurality, cultural values
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- Title Pages
- List of Figures and Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Foreword
- The Cultural Values of Europe: An Introduction
- 1 The Axial Age in World History
- 2 The Judeo-Christian Tradition
- 3 The Greco-Roman Tradition
- 4 How Europe Became Diverse: On the Medieval Roots of the Plurality of Values
- 5 Freedom, Slavery, and the Modern Construction of Rights
- 6 The Value of Introspection
- 7 Rationality – A Specifically European Characteristic?
- 8 The Affirmation of Ordinary Life
- 9 Inner Nature and Social Normativity: The Idea of Self-Realization
- 10 The Status of the Enlightenment in German History<sup>1</sup>
- 11 The Dark Continent – Europe and Totalitarianism
- 12 Value Change in Europe from the Perspective of Empirical Social Research
- 13 The Realities of Cultural Struggles
- 14 The Contest of Values: Notes on Contemporary Islamic Discourse
- 15 Does Europe Have a Cultural Identity?
- Glossary
- Afterword
