Story of Civilization: The Age of Faith (Audiobook)

from Hae-Yu

Although I took forever reading this book, it was enjoyable and provided a wealth of information of the time and subject. The author approaches individuals and movements with a balanced perspective. In one chapter, Durant can be snobbishly critical while 10 chapters later entirely sympathetic. Of...

from AlexTheHunn

Durant devotes this volume to the Dark Ages. He begins with Constantine's conversion and ends with the first flickers of the Italian Renaissance. Along the way, barbarians arise, Rome falls, Charlemagne appears, Thomas Aquinas writes. Durant manages to compress a vast amount of information into h...

from Jiraiya

I began reading this book in January the 10th 0f 2021 and finished reading it on the 13th of April of the same year. This means that I blitzed my way through this book. For you see, this book was enormous, both in its physicality and its scope. There is only one book above 1000 pages of my knowl...

from MarcusBastos

The Middle Age and the West Civilization in the Making The fourth volume of Will Durant's Story of Civilization covers the Middle Age, with special attention to the Catholic Church and the development of the European States. The narrative flows well except for some war passages. Durant succeeds i...

from MarcusBastos

The Middle Age and the West Civilization in the Making The fourth volume of Will Durant's Story of Civilization covers the Middle Age, with special attention to the Catholic Church and the development of the European States. The narrative flows well except for some war passages. Durant succeeds i...