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mythaster 's review for:
St. Francis of Assissi
by G.K. Chesterton
Kind of racist at times and very much enthralled by/impressed with the “medieval” ages, particularly the 13th century, to what I think is an excessive, vaguely unhealthy degree. (Tbh I don’t think there’s such a thing as a “clean” or “healthy” sin or that, should there have been such a thing, medieval people would have been the ones to commit it. His poetical oversimplification of medieval people for the sole purpose of lifting them up on some kind of moral pedestal is strange, and I doubt its factuality.)
It was barely even ABOUT Francis, tbh, it was more like a “look how much better literally everything was in the thirteenth century after The Pagans died out and before vegetarians and pacifists ruined civilization” thing, which I was not at all expecting, especially from Chesterton. I think the thing is I just disagreed with either Chesterton’s claims or his tone 90% of the time that he wasn’t talking about Francis, which happened more than I wanted.
What he actually wrote about Francis was great, though.
It was barely even ABOUT Francis, tbh, it was more like a “look how much better literally everything was in the thirteenth century after The Pagans died out and before vegetarians and pacifists ruined civilization” thing, which I was not at all expecting, especially from Chesterton. I think the thing is I just disagreed with either Chesterton’s claims or his tone 90% of the time that he wasn’t talking about Francis, which happened more than I wanted.
What he actually wrote about Francis was great, though.