Les Origines de le Civilisation Moderne
Publisher: Ch. Peeters, V.Lecoffre
Published: 1886- Third printing -2 volumes combined
Place of publication: Louvain (Belgium, Paris (France)/ Société Belge de Librairie
Format: hardcover
Copyright date: the book is in the public domain (published before 1923)
Table of contents: title: he author’s scientific reputation is enshrined in the publication of his first major work: The Origins of Modern Civilization (1886), in which he developed a thesis that will be found in all of his work: civilization and Christianity are inseparable.; title: Kurth's book entitled Les origines de la civilization moderne33 was this historian's first great work, the one which gave him an international reputation. Of all his books, it was without a doubt the most controversial.; title: Kurth defended the idea that there was a close association between the "civilizing principle" and "Christian policy" which was unquestionably "the most vibrant of all realities".; title: We understand that this state of mind can be difficult to understand in our time. Mentalities change, along with the attitudes and the words that express them.; title: "Denying this characteristic of modern civilization", according r Kurth,"would be denying the evidence. Refusing to honor the Christian principle would be true blindness. If we trace the frontiers of civilization on a world map, we see that we have traced the frontiers of Christianity".; title: After covering the period from the Late Roman Empire through the reign of Charlemagne, Kurth drew a decisive conclusion: "The coronation of Charlemagne was the birth certificate of modern civilization. By then a Christian society had finally come into being! … The Christian idea, the most sublime social idea that men had ever formed, began to be realized".; title: The book that was crowned by the Institute of France and by the Royal Academy of Belgium.