THE HORIZON BOOK OF THE MIDDLE AGES

Lucid history, lovely illustrations. The author, a specialist in Romance Literature (Petrarch and His World, Blaise Pascal) and a frequent Horizon contributor, makes the medieval period accessible to the general reader. Some 329 pictures (more than 100 in color plus five picture portfolios) and a chronology further illuminate the social and cultural history of the age. Available also with Great Cathedrals as the first volume of The Horizon History of the Medieval World.