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The centuries which followed the fall of the Empire in the West, in spite of the the impoverishment of their material culture, were from the liturgical point of view a great creative age, and it is remarkable that this is no less true of the semi-barbarian West than of the stable and comparatively prosperous Byzantine world. All these ages possessed of poetry, music and art found expression in the liturgy—an expression no later age has been able to surpass.
Christopher Dawson
Christopher Dawson
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