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Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the first universities - in Paris, Oxford, Cambridge? The church.

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Nancy Pearcey
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: January 1
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Nancy Randolph Pearcey
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