Examines the creation of universities in the cities of Europe during the Middle Ages and discusses how medieval intellectuals ensured that the luxury of learning ceased to be limited to the Church and the Court

Product Description: More an eloquent chronicle of the mind's life than a recital of daily routine, this volume of Mircea Eliade's journal offers a remarkably candid portrait of a renowned scholar and his work. The entries—full of marvelous ideas, outlines for works never written, responses to the works of others, and much more—reveal many rarely glimpsed sides of the private, as well as public, man...read more