I did a google search and came up with this..... <http://www.twf.org/Library/Renaissance.html>
I have a friend who is a librarian and a catholic historian. he told me that the tradition of written history within the catholic / orthodox church (one of the main sources of older european history...) was something that was copied from the arabs especially during the arab occupation of spain, sicily...southern europe.... On 7/17/07, Ramakrishnan Sundaram wrote:
> even in europe a strong tradition of documenting history was something > that was picked up after the arab incursions.... That's interesting. Do you have any references I can use to learn more? Ram
