from ValeStrasse

I'm sure that there is a great deal of learning behind almost every sentence. However, the book is full of long tracts of boredom, punctuated with the occasional interesting paragraph. Too bad the author thought it necessary to provide an old-school list of names and dates without enough context.

from TeaTimeCoder

I know there's very little information available but that's no reason to latch on to any of it that is concrete and start listing names and dates I will forget two sentences later just because you have that information. Additionally, if you removed all the repeated caveats of "we cannot be sure"...

from ValeStrasse

I'm sure that there is a great deal of learning behind almost every sentence. However, the book is full of long tracts of boredom, punctuated with the occasional interesting paragraph. Too bad the author thought it necessary to provide an old-school list of names and dates without enough context.

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This is a narrative history version of Wickham's Framing the Middle Ages designed for a wider audience and part of Penguin's new multi-authored history of Europe series. It represents the latest views on the period and covers not only Western Europe but Eastern as well as North Africa and the Mid...

from TomMcGreevy

The Dark Ages are not as 'dark' as I had assumed. That said, this is a difficult book to read. It covers 600 years of history across Europe, the Middle East, and Turkey - in only 550 pages. Altogether, a great deal of history in a limited space. I learned in particular that this is the period in ...