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This volume forms the first part of one
of the finest general introductions to the medieval world
of recent times. Lavishly illustrated, with numerous accompanying
maps and charts, each of the three volumes presents a synthesis
of scholarly research and interpretation, translated from
the original French and revised thoroughly for an English
speaking readership.
Volume I spans the beginning of the Middle
Ages, a period marked nor only by change, plague and civil
strife but also by the rise of the Church, the growing importance
of Byzantium and the flowering of the Carolingian Renaissance.
Full coverage is given to East and West, and their artistic
heritage is displayed in many of the colour plates. A bibliography
is appended as an aid to further investigation, whether
by the general reader or by teachers and students of the
period.
The two further volumes, on 950-1250 and
on 1250-1520, are also available. The Cambridge Illustrated
History of the Middle Ages is also sold as a three-volume
boxed set.
The editor and principal contributor,
Robert Fossier, is Professor of Medieval History at the
Universite de Paris I. |
