Curt Doolittle updated his status.

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—“…in a recent article by John Van Engen.54 In it, he discusses the current debate among historians as to whether or not “medieval culture was essentially ‘Christian’ or ‘Catholic.’ “55 As Van Engen notes, some historians now claim that, outside of a minuscule clerical elite, “the great mass of medieval folk lived in a ‘folklore’ culture best likened to that observed by anthropologists in Third World countries.”56”—