Hinges of History Mysteries of the Middle Ages: And the Beginning of the Modern World, Book 05, (Paperback)

from markmobley

Thomas Cahill is simply my favorite writer on history. He does not simply recreate events, but rather recreates the attitudes that allow those events to transpire. We often ask when someone does the unthinkable, "What were they thinking?" Well, Cahill proposes to answer. He is the first that intr...

from davidpwithun

This was yet another masterful entry in Thomas Cahill's Hinges of History series. In this book, Cahill covers the Middle Ages (about the years 400-1400), specifically focusing on developments in Western Europe during this period. The only complaints that I have about this book are that Cahill doe...

from madamepince

Interesting European personalities of the middle ages.

from ashergabbay

Thomas Cahill is an academic best known for his "Hinges of History" series. I read the four previous books in the series and written reviews about two of them: "How the Irish Saved Civilization", "The Gifts of the Jews". The fifth book in the series is about the "Mysteries of the Middle Ages". Ca...

from mattries37315

In popular imagination the medieval period is a time of ignorance and superstition, fear and violence, and crushing religious intolerance of anything the Church was against. Mysteries of the Middle Ages is the fifth volume of Thomas Cahill's 'Hinges of History' series, focusing on the individuals...