Since the fifteenth century, when humanist writers began to speak
of a "middle" period in history linking their time to the ancient
world, the nature of the Middle Ages has been widely debated.
Across the millennium from 500 to 1500, distinguished historian
Johannes Fried describes a dynamic confluence of political, social,
religious, economic, and scientific developments that draws a
guiding thread through the era: the growth of a culture of reason.
"Fried's breadth of knowledge is formidable and his passion for the
period admirable...Those with a true passion for the Middle Ages
will be thrilled by this ambitious defensio." -Dan Jones, Sunday
Times "Reads like a counterblast to the hot air of the
liberal-humanist interpreters of European history...[Fried] does
justice both to the centrifugal fragmentation of the European
region into monarchies, cities, republics, heresies, trade and
craft associations, vernacular literatures, and to the persistence
of unifying and homogenizing forces: the papacy, the Western
Empire, the schools, the friars, the civil lawyers, the bankers,
the Crusades...Comprehensive coverage of the whole medieval
continent in flux." -Eric Christiansen, New York Review of Books
"[An] absorbing book...Fried covers much in the realm of ideas on
monarchy, jurisprudence, arts, chivalry and courtly love,
millenarianism and papal power, all of it a rewarding read." -Sean
McGlynn, The Spectator
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