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Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date: 2009-7-1 Pages: 476 Publisher:. Little Brown Of all the civilisations existing in the year 1000. that ofWestern Europe seemed the unlikeliest candidate for futuregreatness Com pared to the glittering empires of Byzantium orIslam. the splintered kingdoms on the edge of the Atlantic appearedimpoverished. fearful and backward. But the anarchy of these yearsproved to be. not the portents of the end of the world. as manyChristians had dreaded. but rather the birthpangs of a radicallynew order. MILLENNIUM is a stunning panoramic account of the twocenturies on either side of the apocalyptic year 1000. This was theage of Canute. William the Conqueror and Pope Gregory VII. ofVikings. monks and serfs. of the earliest castles and the inventionof knighthood. and of the primal conflict between church and state.The story of how the distinctive culture...
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Historian Tom Holland has adapted Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides and Virgil for BBC Radio. RUBICON was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and won the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History 2004, and PERSIAN FIRE won the Anglo-Hellenic League's Runciman Award 2006.
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** Fast and lively ... another blockbuster Jenny Diski, SUNDAY TIMES ** A mighty narrative of kings and popes, battles and massacres ... A tremendously good read SUNDAY TELEGRAPH MAGAZINE 'At last, a book that sheds much-needed light on those 1,000 years between Roman Britain and the Norman conquest that we call the dark ages Sue Arnold GUARDIAN 'Holland tells a cracking tale, vividly bringing this neglected era of monks, popes, knights and serfs back to life David Sinclair, TRIBUNE
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- PublisherAbacus
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0349119724
- ISBN 13 9780349119724
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages512
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