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Christianity's Attitudes Toward The Past In Western Medieval Europe

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Christianity is the most important factor that determined the attitudes towards the past in western medieval Europe. Christianity determined the attitudes towards the past in several ways. It provided God as the prime mover of history. This meant the understanding of why an event came to pass was understood as an act of God’s will. Gervase of Canterbury emphasised that the chronicler’s primary role was to record and interpret signs from God. This shows that Christianity determined that an attitude towards the past was that you can determine the will of God from events of the past. One popular and rather formulaic way for this to be demonstrated, is as one of the reasons why a battle was won or lost. Christianity also offered a shared sense

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