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Medieval Literature and Poetry/
Illuminated Manuscripts

The Middle Ages was a period of about one thousand years, between the collapse
of the Roman Empire during the fifth century AD and the revival of classical art and
learning known as the Renaissance around the fifteenth century. During this dark and
chaotic period small groups of devout Christians could live with security and pursue a
religious life. These people were doing something that almost no one else could do at the
time- reading and writing. They were making something that almost no one else could
make or have any use for- books. The first of these books was the Bible, and as time
passed, more forms of literature such as poetry and illuminated manuscripts were created.
Christianity, like Judaism and Islam, is a written religion. The Bible is regarded as a
sacred text for Christianity containing the revealed truth of G-d. The most important part
of early monastic life was the preservation, reading, and......

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