# The Closing of the Western Mind

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- Authors: [Charles Freeman](https://www.bookquiver.com/charles-freeman)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-14-0003-380-5
- Pages: 480
- Published: 2005-02-08
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A radical and powerful reappraisal of the impact of Constantine’s adoption of Christianity on the later Roman world, and on the subsequent development both of Christianity and of Western civilization....