Ebook: Medieval People: Vivid Lives in a Distant Landscape
Author: Michael Prestwich
- Genre: History // Memoirs; Biographies
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: Thames and Hudson
- City: London
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
- epub
This engrossing, exquisitely illustrated, often witty account tells the life stories of some seventy individuals who "made" the Middle Ages. There are kings and queens, popes and politicians, soldiers and merchants, scholars, authors and visionaries. They range from the important, such as El Cid or Frederick Barbarossa, to the little known, such as the dissolute Venetian nun Clara Sanuto. Some were astonishingly successful: the empire created by Chinggis Khan was one of the most extensive ever seen. Some, such as Charles the Bold, the over-ambitious 15th–century duke of Burgundy, were failures.
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