Six lectures delivered to an audience at the University of Sussex, Brighton by Hugh Trevor-Roper, Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford.

To us the Renaissance means the Renaissance of the fifteenth century; but twelfth-century Europe saw a tremendous flourishing of intellectual vitality. Through the Arabs 'the science of the Greeks' reached Europe, heresies flourished, the universities were founded. Yet this early Renaissance was checked and Europe declined once again.
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These lectures are being printed in 'The Listener'