[Perspectives] Icarus

When did the Middle Ages end? A traditional date is 1453, the fall of Byzantium. Another candidate is 1610, when Galileo reported that Jupiter had moons. But if a defining feature of the Middle Ages was transcendence—the belief that human beings are ultimately spiritual and that life on earth is a shadow of the heavenly life—then for some people, the Middle Ages ended with the collapse of great theocratic empires (Russia, China, the Ottoman Empire) and the advancement of secular politics.

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