Book Ii. the Middle Ages

(476–1453)

CHAPTER XV. CHARACTERISTICS AND CONDITIONS OF THE MIDDLE AGES, 319 COMPARISON OF THE HELLENIC-ROMAN PERIOD AND THE MIDDLE AGES, 319 THE MEDIÆVAL MAN, 320 HOW THE UNIVERSE APPEARED TO THE MEDIÆVAL MAN, 322 MAPS OF THE PTOLEMAIC COSMOGRAPHY, 323, 325 THE MEDIÆVAL MAN AT SCHOOL, 325 A MEDIÆVAL LIBRARY, 326 1. Books most commonly read, 327 2. Books that the scholars might use, 327 3. The Books most influential philosophically upon the time, 328 THE THREE PERIODS OF THE MIDDLE AGES, 328 SUMMARY OF THE POLITICAL AND EDUCATIONAL WORLDS OF THE MEDIÆVAL MAN, 330