Ex Ecclesia Nulla Salus

I've finished my second book, G. G. Coulton's The Medieval Scene:  an Informal Introduction to the Middle Ages, and I had no need of the overseer's rod to spur me on.  Although brief, Coulton is scholarly and well-informed; his judgements are particularly corrective in dispelling popular myths, like the image of monks painstakingly copying manuscripts as the lion's share of their daily toil (When the great scholar St. Bernard left his library to the Church, it contained only twenty-four books).

Thoroughly enjoyable.