CSCT 3D03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Rule Of Saint Benedict, Acute Radiation Syndrome, Kodak
3 Feb 2017
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A canticle for leibowitz: the monastery, the book, and the preservation of knowledge. Nobody needed literacy-> but it made you more elite. These manuscripts lasted a very long time-> some are still here today. Illumination-> fancy letters and pictures in the books. Rome was an empire, so they had a long way to go down. They wrote books in latin-> the commonly spoken and writ language. Using an actual era to write a sf novel is a good idea because it already lays out the framework. * monastic life in the dark ages is a major theme in this novel. Another side of the professional religious life in the middle ages is evoked in the. Christianity-> sort of like the middle age ideas. Were required to go to church two days a year. Monastic life-> living life according to and devoted to the church. Becoming a nun was the best choice for a long healthy life.
