The purpose of this discussion assignment is to reflect upon your belief about how our society should be structured to achieve justice. In 1page, write a letter to one of your elected officials in which you identify an unjust circumstance in your community and advise your representative as to how it might be remedied.

The purpose of this discussion assignment is to reflect upon your belief about how our society should be structured to achieve justice. In 1page, write a letter to one of your elected officials in which you identify an unjust circumstance in your community and advise your representative as to how it might be remedied.

The intellectual history of the later Middle Ages.

The intellectual history of the later Middle Ages has traditionally been described as decadent, autumnal, waning. Yet recently a few scholars have asserted that the period between 1250-1450 was one of innovation, change, possibility. Which view is more accurate and why? Medievalists tend to dismiss this argument out of hand. Take a fresh look at this argument and consider the extent to which the Middle Ages was an sterile age, merely passing on diluted versions of the heritage of antiquity, and the extent to which it contributed new and vital elements to the European tradition.

Explore why people rediscovering the works of classical Greece and Rome saw the Middle Ages as sterile;

The term Middle Ages was invented during the Renaissance in order to heap opprobrium on what was seen as a sterile age in which government had degenerated into feudal anarchy, religion into superstition, and scholarship into pedantic quibbles of schoolmen over texts that they scarcely understood. First, explore why people rediscovering the works of classical Greece and Rome saw the Middle Ages as sterile; and then state whether or not that was a fair assessment, providing examples to support your view.