Surveys main currents in Western thought through eight centuries.

    The book is divided into sections dealing with early names, territorial divisions, general surveys of areas; it also looks at saints, church terms, and river names. This is essential reading for anyone interested in Scottish history and the derivations of place-names the length and breadth of the country.

    Embedded in medieval doctrines regarding law, women, Christendom, art - and especially just war, property, money-making, and education - are principles that we would well relearn in the present age. By rediscovering the inner structure of such a society, we might forge our own adaptation of these principles in a new embodiment of distributist order. And in shaping such an alternative vision - one which can transcend the division and dehumanization of present political, economic, and social structures - there is no better starting-point than Social Theories of the Middle Ages.