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

The Medieval Experience (MART: The Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching) by Oakley, Francis. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780802067074.

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