If this book were written in the 10th or 11th century, it would have been much easier for the author. Much of the material presented here is based ...

If this book were written in the 10th or 11th century, it would have been much easier for the author. Much of the material presented here is based on the study of very old writers, often in a foreign language - Latin, Old or Modern French, Old or Modern German. The medieval historian, however, browsing through the documents of the past, would find them all written in the language he knew best - Latin. It would make no difference whether he lived in London, Paris, Hamburg, Amsterdam or Rome. Latin was the universal language of scholars. What is the main idea of this paragraph?


a) The difficulties of writing a book in the Middle Ages.
b) The importance of Latin as a universal language in the Middle Ages.
c) The challenges of studying foreign languages in the Middle Ages.