The Classical Heritage and its Beneficiaries

'Mr Bolgar continually suppies concrete and fresh or unfamiliar information that makes the shadowy more substantial, and analytical comments that enrich or qualify or explode over-simple generalizations … There are few men who have the zeal, the comprehensive learning and the historical insight even to contemplate a single-handed work of such scope, and as a history and active reinterpretation of a great movement, Mr Bolgar's book is richly informative and illuminating.' Douglas Bush, Renaissance News

• Preface to 1973 impression; Introduction; 1. The background; 2. The Greek East; 3. The Carolingian Age; 4. The Pre-scholastic Age; 5. The Scolastic Age; 6. Collapse an new beginnings; 7. The high renaissance; 8. The end of the renaissance and the appearance of new patterns in classical education and scholarship; 9. Education and the classical heritage; Notes; Appendices; Index.