Description: The contributors in this book deal with various aspects of learning, in a broad historical and geographical perspective, which ranges from Ancient Babylon, via classical Greece and Rome, and the Middle East (both Christian and Islamic), through to the Latin and vernacular cultures of the Christian West in the Middle Ages and early Renaissance.
Review Quotes: "The book is persuasive and surprisingly detailed considering its great scope."
Leonard R.N. Ashley, Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 1995.