Excerpt from A History of Medieval Civilization in EuropeA topical rather than a strictly chronological arrangement Of material has been followed, as it is my conviction that such treatment tends to make for clarity in the mind of the stu dent. While placing emphasis upon the social and cultural aspects of the Middle Ages, I have endeavored also to present the development of political institutions, inasmuch as the heritage of modern civilization from the Middle Ages is political as well as social and cultural.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.