Livre d'Or

I also liked the religion, and the presence of the Jew as well as the Catholics; it was a nice balance in some of the arguments.

Oh yes, very lovely to have him there, and the degree to which he's not explained is just right.

I liked the idea of the monasteries as the repositories of culture, for once,

I'm not sure I'm comfortable with the association of that with mainstream Catholicism, though, when the historical parallel is not only well pre-Reformation, but most strongly associated with a strand of Celtic Christianity that had an indetity of its own which Rome did not take kindly to and eventually more or less wiped out, to simplify the situation somewhat.

This was post-Roman Europe rather than the Conquest of the New World, you know?

Well, both of those occurred under the auspices of people who thought of themselves as Christians; I'm more inclined to think of this value of survival of civilisation as under the auspices of Pallas Athena myself, the Christian message has a lot of positive things in it but respect for history and civilisation have never struck me as being explicitly among them.