Medieval People: Vivid Lives in a Distant Landscape - From Charlemagne to Piero della Francesca - Hardcover

Prestwich, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0500252033 ISBN 13: 9780500252031

Verlag: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2014

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'This volume works by lively and well-chosen contextualisation of the lives of individuals who made a major contribution to the story of the Middle Ages in Europe' - Society of Antiquaries Newsletter

Reseña del editor:

This engrossing and often witty account tells the life stories of some 70 individuals who made the Middle Ages. There are kings and queens, popes and politicians, soldiers and merchants, scholars, authors and visionaries. They range from the important, such as El Cid or Frederick Barbarossa, to the little known, such as the dissolute Venetian nun Clara Sanuto. Some were astonishingly successful: the empire created by Chinggis Khan was one of the most extensive ever seen. Some, such as Charles the Bold, the over-ambitious 15th-century duke of Burgundy, were failures. Contrary to modern myth, medieval people did not believe the earth was flat; torture was far less common than in later centuries; and technological advances included guns, printing, blast furnaces, spectacles, stirrups and the compass. Full of insights such as these, this book shows how medieval people lived in an era that was more one of invention and innovation than of superstition and backwardness. It will appeal to all those who want a truer picture of a world often erroneously portrayed by bestselling novelists of today.

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• Verlag: Thames and Hudson Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0500252033
• ISBN 13: 9780500252031
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288