Prologue: Middle-Class ‘Revolutionaries' in Pursuit of Moral, Physical, Political and Social Health

In Scholastic Humanism and the Unification of Europe, R.W. Southern wrote:

Theology, Law, and the liberal Arts were the three props on which European order and civilization were built during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries - that is to say, during the period of Europe's most rapid expansion in population, wealth and world-wide aspirations before the nineteenth century. ¹