ISBN-13: 9780802067074 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 228 str.
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