num_pages: 432
description: A monk in the black-and-white habit of the Dominicans sits in a niche set within an elaborate columned edifice crowned by a vault. Carved on the panels either side of him are fasces, rods bound together, a symbol of authority that reaches back through the history of ancient Rome to the Etruscans.
language: English
title: The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith & the Fall of Reason
titlecomplete: The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith & the Fall of Reason
genres: Christianity, History, Philosophy, Religion, European History, World History, Ancient, Nonfiction, Medieval, Politics
ratings_count: 2047
publisher: Knopf