The Forge of Christendom, (Paperback)

from SChant

A readable history of Europe around the first christian millenium. The spread of names and places was a bit confusing at times, and I thought the "Millenium" reference was a bit of a stretch when the timespan covered around 400 years, but all-in-all very enjoyable.

from robeik

Millennium covers a largely unfamiliar piece of history for me - the +/- 200 years from 1000AD. It was a time when people were reading their Bibles (actually the reading was being done for them) and expecting the return of Jesus and the end of the world. It was a dreadful time to be sure, but it ...

from jintster

Tom Holland has risen very quickly to become one of the UK's foremost popular historians. The rpimary reason is his ability to tell a complex story reasonably simply through sharp and lucid prose. With his third book, he has tried to add an element of analysis to the storytelling but he doesn't s...

from jintster

Tom Holland has risen very quickly to become one of the UK's foremost popular historians. The rpimary reason is his ability to tell a complex story reasonably simply through sharp and lucid prose. With his third book, he has tried to add an element of analysis to the storytelling but he doesn't s...

from jcbrunner

An enjoyable if disjointed history of some highlights of 10th and 11th century European history. Its new US title "The Forge of Christendom" is in no way warranted. The turn of the millennium (giving it its original title) is also not an important part of the narrative. Its focus lies on some ext...