Common ground
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1394983,00.html
Jacques Le Goff looks back to the Middle Ages to find the roots of a
shared European identity in The Birth of Europe
Adam Thorpe
Saturday January 22, 2005
The Guardian
The Birth of Europe
by Jacques Le Goff
274pp, Blackwell, =A320
In which century was the world's first suspension bridge constructed?
The camshaft invented? New applications found for mills? Seventeenth?
Eighteenth? No, it was the 13th, a century not generally associated
with intellectual and material innovation - yet which belonged, in the
view of the eminent French medievalist Jacques Le Goff, to a time more
open to fundamental change than our own.
Jacques Le Goff
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