The Medieval Experience (MART: The Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching)

About this book

Originally published by Charles Scribners Sons 1974. The perspective from which this book has been written is that of world history; the conviction determining its focus that of Western cultural peculiarity or singularity; the belief suggesting its unifying theme that it was during the medieval period - in particular during the centuries from the eleventh onward - that the foundations were laid on which the edifice of Western cultural peculiarity was subsequently erected. From the Introduction