The second volume outlines the development of culture in Europe from the grounds on which sits in the Carolingian period and progresses throughout the European Middle Ages, especially in Italy, France, Spain, Germany and England, reaching its maximum refining expansion and development in the sixteenth century closes with the intent of the Society of Jesus after the implementation of a teaching method valid for all European countries. Special attention was applied to the study of medieval institutions and the role especially the cathedral schools and grammar, as well as the nascent universities. It takes, of course, a prominent consideration of the contribution to Western culture of the great figures of the time: Abelard, Aquinas, Luther and Erasmus of Rotterdam. A balanced and thorough apreación is undertaken to discuss the importance of achieving the humanism born in the so-called Italian Renaissance and spread throughout Western Europe to prevail in the educational thought and schooling practices of the time. It is a fact that the recovery of the classical tradition essentially aimed at achieving full virtue in human consciousness and resulted in a final synthesis of classical and Christian culture implicitly accepting as fact that the highest commitment to education was alñcanzar the Christian way of life. The process leading to this conclusion are discussed in contrast to the various debates and controversies that characterized this historic period.