The period from the reign of Constantine to the great voyages of
discovery--or from the fourth to the fifteenth century--was once
seen merely as the long, slow decline and fall of the Roman Empire.
Yet, for Europeans, it is also a "supreme story of defeat turned
into victory."
Colin McEvedy's pioneering atlas, revised and expanded for this
new edition, treats as one unit the Mediterranean, Europe and the
nomads' steppeland to the East (the habitat of Huns, Turks and
Mongols). Illuminating maps and lively commentaries present the
towns and trade routes, the changing population patterns, the
boundaries of Christendom (and later Islam) and the ever-shifting
political units. The result is a wonderfully eloquent picture, as
Dr. McEvedy puts it, "of how old empires fell and new ones rose,
and how, in Europe, a new society emerged which had the energy to
break free from the geographical, intellectual and technical
limitations that defined the medieval world."
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