Excerpt from The Seven Liberal Arts: A Study in Mediaeval Culture In no branch of historical investigation have these two canons wrought such remarkable changes as in the study of the Middle Ages. The new attitude towards this fascinating period of history has in some fields completely destroyed the value of much that passed for historical truth fifty years ago. To such an extent have our ideas about the middle ages been modified that the attitude of the modern scholar toward nearly all the traditional views of the period is one of skeptical reserve. Things, he urges, could not have been as we have been led to believe they were. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.