The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Middle Ages: Volume 1 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521266440 ISBN 13: 9780521266444

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1989

Synopsis

This volume forms the first part of one of the finest general introductions to the medieval world of recent times. Lavishly illustrated, with numerous accompanying maps and charts, each of the three volumes presents a synthesis of scholarly research and interpretation, translated from the original French and revised thoroughly for an English speaking readership. Volume I spans the beginning of the Middle Ages, a period marked not only by change, plague and civil strife but also by the rise of the Church, the growing importance of Byzantium and the flowering of the Carologian Renaissance. Full coverage is given to East and West, and their artistic heritage is displayed in many of the colour plates. A bibliography is appended as an aid to further investigation, whether by the general reader or by teachers and students of the period. The two further volumes, on 950–1250 and on 1250–1520, are also available. The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Middle Ages is also sold as a three-volume boxed set.

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Review:

"An up-to-date and extensive discussion of three major civilizations that emerged from the dissolution of the classical world: the Byzantine Empire, the vast complex of Islam, and European Christian civilization." Choice

Book Description:

This book is the first volume that introduces the reader to the period from 350 to 950 AD. Full coverage is given to East and West as well as the artistic heritage of this time. General readers, teachers and students will find this a useful book.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0521266440
• ISBN 13: 9780521266444
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 556
• Editor: Fossier Robert