​Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction by David Macaulay

• What is the purpose of having prefatory comments in the beginning of a history or literature course? How might you set up modernity for your students?
• What questions might you present to your students to help them draw conclusions about on period of history leading to another?
• How do ecumenical schools form?
• What are some distinctions that you can draw about the secular and the sacred in the Middle Ages versus the Renaissance?