There have been a number of works written about Christopher Dawson since his death in 1970. One of the first was a comprehensive biography by his daughter Christina Scott, entitled A Historian and his World. Although the work is currently out of print, it is soon to be republished by the Catholic University of America Press. Another was Bradley J. Birzer’s Sanctifying the World: The Augustinian Life and Mind of Christopher Dawson, a more academic work that combined biography with a detailed attempt to define Dawson’s worldview.
Now a new work has come on to the scene, entitled Christopher Dawson: A Cultural Mind in the Age of the Great War, by Joseph T. Stuart. As the title suggests, the book focuses on Dawson as a cultural historian within the intellectual context of the early 20th century, and shows his major contributions to the fields of sociology, history, comparative religion, politics and education. The author has also posted a lecture about his book on Youtube.
