The most readable and imaginative one-volume history of the middle ages in the English language. Now revised and expanded, this edition of the splendidly detailed and lively history of the Middle Ages contains more than 30 percent new material.
Editorial Reviews
"No better explanation of medievalism is available to the general reader." --Booklist
"That such a volume is brought out by a trade publisher, rather than by a university press, testifies to the felt need for a good book for general readers on this fascinating period of history." --Washington Post Book World
"Historian Cantor just keeps improving on what was excellent in the fist place....One-third of the text is now different from that of the original, reflective of new scholarly investigation and thinking on Cantor's part." --Booklist
"A majestic, thoughtful, engrossing history for the layman. Professor Cantor's style is easy--no jargon. He is far beyond just knowing his period; he understands it and so he can explain, without oversimplifying, the variety and complexity of this great section of the West's past. A marvelous book." --The New Yorker
About the Author
Norman F. Cantor was Emeritus Professor of history, sociology, and comparative literature at New York University. His many books include In the Wake of the Plague, Inventing the Middle Ages, and The Civilization of the Middle Ages, the most widely read narrative of the Middle Ages in the English language. He died in 2004.
