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Beatrice's Last Smile - A New History of the Middle Ages (Hardcover)
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Beatrice's Last Smile - A New History of the Middle Ages (Hardcover)
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Beatrice's Last Smile is a sweeping narrative history of the
medieval west from the beginning of the third century to the
beginning of the sixteenth. This book focuses on slow formation of
Latin Christendom over a millennium in the aftermath of the
disintegration of the western Roman Empire. Beatrice's Last Smile
is a sweeping narrative history of the medieval west from the
beginning of the third century to the beginning of the sixteenth.
The reader travels from the Mediterranean to the North Sea, from
the Nile to the Volga, from north Africa to the central Asia, until
finally ending in the Americas. Through a focus on slow formation
of Latin Christendom over a millennium in the aftermath of the
disintegration of the western Roman Empire, Beatrice's Last Smile
is a history of holiness which includes Judaism and the revelations
of Muhammad. The narrative moves from the violence within
fifth-century Britain and Gaul to the Hundred Years War between
England and France, from the plague of the sixth century to the
Black Death of the fourteenth, from the first crusaders sacking
Jerusalem to the Spanish capturing Tenochtitlán, from Viking raids
to Mongol invasions, from the inquisitons into heresy to the trials
of witches, from a third-century Christian mother dying in a Roman
arena to the immolation of Joan of Arc in the fifteenth, from an
ancient universe without heaven and hell to a medieval cosmos with
a fiery inferno and a shimmering paradise. Over these centuries
there is an emphasis on individual men and women and their stories
woven together with the story of the emergence of a distinctive
western culture.
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