Medieval Foundations of the Western Intellectual Tradition Booker Prize Nominee (2015) He was everything she'd sworn

He was everything she'd sworn to avoid

and trust makes them come alive with meaning and purpose

Compelling and timely

uttered in the first act of "Waiting for Godot"

Medieval Foundations of the Western Intellectual Tradition Booker Prize Nominee (2015) He was everything she'd swornThis 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