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Few think of the Christian Middle Ages as a time of great innovations, a time when mathematics, science, and especially engineering came to matter in daily life to a degree that would have stunned the ancients.

The high degree to which medieval Christians identified with their trades did not come up in isolation.

It came hand in hand with the high status their society granted to its increasingly numerous middle classes.

Although some technologies were lost at the very beginning of the period, most of them were recovered fairly quickly.

By the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , devout master masons were adorning England , France , and the Low Countries with their highly innovative Gothic cathedrals.

To medieval men and women, hard work and innovation were spiritual callings.

A lot of 18th-century intellectuals couldn't give the Catholic Church credit for fostering so much learning and social progress.

One must consider the modern left’s general mixture of ignorance and disrespect for the cultural heritage of white Europeans , plus its hatred of capitalism.

For it was the wish “to serve God and his Majesty .. and to grow rich as all men desire to do,” as the conquistador Bernal Díaz so memorably put it.