In this ground-breaking new study, Jacques Le Goff, arguably the leading medievalist of his generation, presents his view of the primacy of the Middle Ages in the development of European history.

• - A] superb and necessary book. This provocative assessment from a lifetime of scholarship might help us to place ourselves, not just territorially, but in that other precious element of history: time.- The Guardian
  
• -A book that never fails to be informative, readable and provocative. Le Goff... has been the bravest and best of champions for medieval...