The Medieval World - 300-1300 by Norman F. Cantor
Reading and documents, many unavailable in sufficient quantity for the undergraduate, are now provided in a survey of western civilization which begins with the world of Mesopotamia and continues to the present. A number of these documents have been translated for the first time. The most important ideas and institutions of each period are critically studied through documents, interpretations of past and present historians, and through the expression of opinion contemporaneous to the time.