Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Six Ages of the World


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The result was withdrawn by nominator. --Akhilleus (talk) 18:50, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Six Ages of the World

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Contested prod. Article asserts significance of this chronological scheme, but doesn't show that it's important outside the work of St. Augustine, and doesn't provide evidence of its importance within Augustine's work. Searches on Google scholar turn up nothing useful, the Catholic Encyclopedia doesn't have an entry on this and doesn't mention it in the article on St. Augustine. Conte's History of Latin Literature doesn't mention the work this concept supposedly comes from (De catechizandis rudibus). Therefore, I don't think this conecept is notable, and I suspect there's a fair amount of original research in this article. --Akhilleus (talk) 18:06, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep. A systemization of history found in many medieval works. I'm at my job, without access to my books at the moment, but to the best of my recollection this appears in Orosius and Vincent of Beauvais, among others; and it's covered in C. S. Lewis's The Discarded Image and other secondary sources. I'll try to add more when I get home. Deor 18:37, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
 * If there are other sources, I'm happy to withdraw the nomination. Six Ages of the World doesn't seem like the right title, though. --Akhilleus (talk) 18:39, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
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