The gateway to the middle ages
By: by Eleanor Shipley Duckett ...
Publisher: The Macmillan Company
Published: 1938
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 620
Subjects: Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism; Civilization, Medieval; Middle Ages -- History
Notes: Bibliographical foot-notes; "Select bibliography": p. 613-616.
"First printing."
"This book ... attempts to describe in some detail the more important writings of ... the sixth century of our era."--Pref.
Table of contents: title: The historical scene in Italy; title: The Gothic rule in Italy : Cassiodorus, secretary of Theodoric the Great; title: The Gothic rule in Italy : Jordanes and Ennodius; title: Philosophy in the sixth century; title: A picture of France; title: Poetry in the sixth century; title: A picture of Britain; title: Roman monasticism; title: Celtic monasticism; title: Saint Benedict of Nursia; title: Saint Gregory the Great.