terça-feira, 18 de janeiro de 2005

Sobre a Europa

"We had Church, Empire, a number of Kings and Princes, a multitude of feudal relationships and – in some regions – independent Cities, but we never had a small group of rulers able to organize economic life and civil society. As Jean Baechler noticed in his important study about the origins of capitalism and about the role of medieval anarchy in this extraordinary history “the dark centuries have undeniably diffused a spiritual order, but also a deep disorder in politics and the economy." (...) "This manageable chaos was the explanation of our success."
(Carlo Lottieri)

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