• That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages.

  Source: A Distant Mirror

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  American historian 1912-1989
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1. conflict
2. between
3. earthly
4. central
5. problem
6. middle

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That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages. by : Barbara W. Tuchman

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