The name of the rose
In the file The name of the Rose, the monks who run the Benedictine Order Abbey recognize that knowledge can be a very dangerous thing. Knowledge can be dangerous if it says that the truth is different from what the ruling authority says is the truth. Then such knowledge can become part of a revolution in thinking that destroys what people as the truth and a revolution that destroys the power of the ruling authority had accepted. It is this conflict between two different types of knowledge and two different ways of thinking that is at the center of the "book mystery" in the film. It is the conflict between the knowledge, the truth, and the ideas that are contained in an ancient book written by the old Greek philosopher Aristotle that has just been found by the Benedictine monks and the knowledge, the truth, and the ideas of the Christian Church that the Benedictine monks support. As Brother William (Sean Connery), the monk who has come to investigate the deaths at the Abbey, says, such book are seen as dangerous by the ruling Church authorities, "because they contain a wisdom that is different from ours". The medieval Christian Church recognized how much power a book could have because Europe was "defined by Christianity, a
From the growing conflict between the "age of faith" and the "age of reason" to the conflict between a Church that was growing rich and politically powerful and religious orders that wanted the Church to return to its original purpose in helping the poor to the development of the Inquisition which represented the Church's effort to destroy any opposition, The Name of the Rose shows how conflict and religious and social change was taking place in the High middle Ages. The Name of the Rose demonstrates how important the discovery of Aristotle's books was to the development of Christian Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Before the old Greek philosopher's writings were found, the Bible was recognized Europe as the only important book whose knowledge would be used as the truth for what people should believe and how they should live their lives. With the rediscovery of Aristotle's writing, it was recognized that another important source of truth and knowledge had been found. However, such knowledge was not seen as dangerous by the Church so long as its truths could be shown to be the same truths taught by the Christian Church:
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Approximate Word count = 2240
Approximate Pages = 9 (250 words per page double spaced)
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