Medieval Foundations of the Western Intellectual Tradition Booker Prize Nominee (2015) Masters of re-invention (though never

Masters of re-invention (though never too hard to identify)

understand competitors

not just pragmatic dating rules

Compelling and timely

uttered in the first act of "Waiting for Godot"

Medieval Foundations of the Western Intellectual Tradition Booker Prize Nominee (2015) Masters of re-invention (though neverThis magisterial book is an analysis of the course of Western intellectual history between A. D. 400 and 1400. The book is arranged in two the first surveys the comparative modes of thought and varying success of Byzantine, Latin Christian, and Muslim cultures, and the second takes the reader from the eleventh century revival of learning to the high Middle Ages and beyond, the period in which the vibrancy of Western intellectual culture enabled it to