What to Read After The closing of the Western mind
Readers who loved The closing of the Western mind by Charles Freeman keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The closing of the Western mind is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The closing of the Western mind
Lost Christianities
A History of Christianity
The Reformation
The Great Transformation
Aristotle's Children
Mysteries of the Middle Ages
A History of Knowledge
Doubt: A History
God Against the Gods
Absolute monarchs
Pagans and Christians
The swerve
The cave and the light
Ideas
Not the impossible faith
Zealot
Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality
The Rise of Western Christendom
The Betrayal: The Lost Life of Jesus
Great Medieval Heretics
Christianity
The origin of Satan
Adam, Eve and the serpent
Forged