@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt1287gwp.15,
 ISBN = {9780674055629},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1287gwp.15},
 abstract = {Can we speak of reason in the Middle Ages? Or even Enlightenment? Who would have thought such a thing at all credible following the banning of the early obsessive adherents of rationalism? And yet there is no gainsaying the fact! The era of Charlemagne heralded the dawning of a new age of reason; indeed, the king and emperor himself advocated it. Numeracy was also at a premium at this time, as an essential skill for creating the calendar. Hardly any other period was as steeped in reason as the Middle Ages, especially its supposedly “enlightened” tenth century. Young people flocked},
 author = {Johannes Fried and Peter Lewis},
 booktitle = {The Middle Ages},
 pages = {328--373},
 publisher = {Harvard University Press},
 title = {The Light of Reason},
 year = {2015}
}