These / /informative and entertaining selections, when pieced together, build a / /brilliant mosaic that depicts the thought, theology, history, and spiritual and / /personal lives of people living in the fourth through fifteenth centuries A.D., / /from early Christianity to the Renaissance. The passages, complete with notes, / /are accessible to intermediate Latin students, and include a fine range of / /well-known and less often included readings. A brief, helpful introduction to medieval / /Latin and list of medieval Latin words not occurring in classical Latin aid / /readers making the transition from beginning (classical) Latin to medieval / /Latin. The chronological arrangement of the passages puts them into historical / /context, with succinct introductions to periods and texts that are engaging as / /well as instructive.