Jeffrey Burton Russell has a whole book about this. No educated medieval person thought the earth was flat. Columbus's alleged debate was invented by Washington Irving.
Sandra Miesel | 08.31.04 - 3:41 pm | #

I read this book a while ago.
BenYachov(Jim Scott 4th) | Homepage | 08.31.04 - 8:08 pm | #

That would be me. No problem though, since I pulled it from the venerable Bede's site.

Just wanna get a plug in for my blog
http://faithfulcatholic.blogspot.com/
SteveG | Homepage | 08.31.04 - 9:57 pm | #