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Reform or no reform, he never ceased to promote the interests of St. Denis and the Royal House of France with the same naive, and in his case not entirely unjustified, conviction of their identity wit…

Reform or no reform, he never ceased to promote the interests of St. Denis and the Royal House of France with the same naive, and in his case not entirely unjustified, conviction of their identity wit...

Erwin Panofsky

Tags: capitalism, royalty, gothic, france, aristocracy, patronage, sponsorship, abbot suger, st denis

Fusing the doctrines of Plotinus and Proclus with the creeds and beliefs of Christianity, Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite combined the Neo-Platonic conviction of the fundamental oneness and luminous a…

Erwin Panofsky

Fusing the doctrines of Plotinus and Proclus with the creeds and beliefs of Christianity, Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite combined the Neo-Platonic conviction of the fundamental oneness and luminous a...

Erwin Panofsky

Tags: god, theology, christianity, unity, platonic, medieval, plato, neoplatonism, oneness, dogma