1847927440 
Medieval horizons : why the Middle Ages matter / Ian Mortimer.
Publication year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Classification: 942.03
Category: Non-fiction
Publisher: The Bodley Head
ISBN: 1847927440 9781847927446 (hbk.) :
Description:
We tend to think about the Middle Ages as a dark, backward and unchanging time characterised by violence, ignorance and superstition. By contrast we believe progress is the consequence of science and technological innovation, and that it was the inventions of recent centuries which created the modern world. We couldn't be more wrong. As Ian Mortimer shows in this fascinating introduction to the Middle Ages, people's horizons - their knowledge, experience and understanding of the world - expanded dramatically. All aspects of life were utterly transformed between 1000 and 1600, marking the transition from a warrior-led society to that of Shakespeare.
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