The Making of the Middle Ages

R W Southern

ISBN 10: 0300002300 / ISBN 13: 9780300002300

Published by Yale University Press, 1961

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A distinguished Oxford historian presents an absorbing study of the main personalities and the influences that molded the history of Western Europe from the late tenth to the early thirteenth century, describing the chief forms of social, political, and religious organization. ?A book of rare value.??Sidney Painter, American Historical Review.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Making of the Middle Ages
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication Date: 1961
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300002300
• ISBN 13: 9780300002300
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

"This is the work of a man with a rare historical gift: the imagination to recreate the world of which he writes and the critical scholarship to make the exercise of imagination fruitful. . . . One of the most exciting books on history to appear in recent years."—The Economist
 
A distinguished historian presents an absorbing study of the main personalities and the influences that molded the history of Western Europe from the late tenth to the early thirteenth centuries—the formative period of modern Western civilization. R. W. Southern describes the chief forms of social, political, and religious organization, analyzing a wealth of concrete, highly significant episodes. He recaptures the personal experiences and the individual consciences of the men who guided "the making of the Middle Ages."

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This is an absorbing study of the main personalities and the influences that molded the history of Western Europe from the late tenth to the early thirteenth century. Southern describes the chief forms of social, political, and religious organization.