books.google.com - Historians have long recognized that the rebirth of science in twelfth-century Europe flowed from a search for ancient scientific texts. But this search presupposes knowledge and interest; we only seek what we know to be valuable. The emergence of scholarly interest after centuries of apparent stagnation...https://books.google.com/books/about/Astronomies_and_Cultures_in_Early_Mediev.html?id=PsLArVtOsPYC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareAstronomies and Cultures in Early Medieval Europe