[10] The plan for the project after Volume III

     The plan for the project, as it evolved with the
publication of the early materials in the series, encompassed
the first three volumes plus Volume IV, "The Period of
Scholasticism" (800-1300), Volume V, "The Period of
Encounters" (1300-1800), and Volume VI, "The Period of Total
Encounter" (1800 to the present).  What actually developed
was that Volume IV kept growing until it required about 1100
pages of print so that it split into two volumes, Volume IV,
The Period of Scholasticism, Part One (800-1150) and Volume
V, The Period of Scholasticism, Part Two (1150-1350).  With
the unexpected Volume V (the last section of IV in the
original plan), the rest of the proposed project has had to
be abandoned.  So only five of the seven volumes have been
completed.  Those seven by further splittings could easily
have become nine or ten.
     Even so, I can here merely sketch and illustrate what
has been published in this series to 1989, the date of
publication of the fifth volume.  Of course, no one can
really know what the remaining volumes would have looked like
if John Plott were alive today.  He died in the fall of 1990.
For Volumes IV and V, I shall explain the general outline and
illustrate for each volume some of what I attempted to
accomplish with my work and how it relates to what John Plott
contributed to the same volumes.