The Middle Ages is the peak human civilization. No other period or culture has such a definite, recognisable style, yet varied at the same time. The romanesque and gothic architectures, the importance given to math and science as opposite to rhetoric or philosophy in the trivium-quadrivium education system, the ethical-ethnical backbone, with its feudal-caste hierarchy and economy, the glorious war history, the political pragmatism and “incorrectness”, the incredible number titanic personalities, especially for their polyhedric competences and their vigour, the imperial structure loosely unifying the whole continent , or the latin language itself, but also all the beautiful vulgar languages, incomparably richer than today’s, and last but not least the epic poetry, the grand style, the magical atmosphere, the religion ingrained in daily life, festivities, recurrences and time marking. It is a whole, organic world so rich and deep one could lose himself even just by focusing on obscure botany codices or brewing practices.