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Powers and Thrones - A New History of the Middle Ages (Paperback)
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Powers and Thrones - A New History of the Middle Ages (Paperback)
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"Not only an engrossing read about the distant past, both
informative and entertaining, but also a profoundly
thought-provoking view of our not-really-so-'new' present . . . All
medieval history is here, beautifully narrated . . . The vision
takes in whole imperial landscapes but also makes room for intimate
portraits of key individuals, and even some poems."-Wall Street
Journal "A lively history . . . [Jones] has managed to touch every
major topic. As each piece of the puzzle is placed into position,
the modern world gradually comes into view . . . Powers and Thrones
provides the reader with a framework for understanding a
complicated subject, and it tells the story of an essential era of
world history with skill and style."-The New York Times The New
York Times bestselling author returns with an epic history of the
medieval world-a rich and complicated reappraisal of an era whose
legacy and lessons we are still living with today. When the
once-mighty city of Rome was sacked by barbarians in 410 and lay in
ruins, it signaled the end of an era--and the beginning of a
thousand years of profound transformation. In a gripping narrative
bursting with big names-from St Augustine and Attila the Hun to the
Prophet Muhammad and Eleanor of Aquitaine-Dan Jones charges through
the history of the Middle Ages. Powers and Thrones takes readers on
a journey through an emerging Europe, the great capitals of late
Antiquity, as well as the influential cities of the Islamic West,
and culminates in the first European voyages to the Americas. The
medieval world was forged by the big forces that still occupy us
today: climate change, pandemic disease, mass migration, and
technological revolutions. This was the time when the great
European nationalities were formed; when the basic Western systems
of law and governance were codified; when the Christian Churches
matured as both powerful institutions and the regulators of Western
public morality; and when art, architecture, philosophical inquiry
and scientific invention went through periods of massive,
revolutionary change. The West was rebuilt on the ruins of an
empire and emerged from a state of crisis and collapse to dominate
the world. Every sphere of human life and activity was transformed
in the thousand years covered by Powers and Thrones. As we face a
critical turning point in our own millennium, Dan Jones shows that
how we got here matters more than ever.
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