Editorial note — The Ignorance Of The Middle Ages.
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[Footnote 253: Villemain, Histoire de la Littérature da Moyen Age, lesson xviii. He evidently does not comprehend the influence of theology, for he adds, "As in another age the public mind is expressed by politics, the theology of one epoch is the philosophy of another."]
[Footnote 254: J. de Maistre.]
[Footnote 255: The Oxford students and those of other universities studied at the same time civil and canon law.]