MEDIEVAL HORIZONS: WHY THE MIDDLE AGES MATTER (PB)

We think of the Middle Ages as dark, backward and unchanging - full of violence, ignorance and superstition. We couldn’t be more wrong. In this book, the author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England provides the perfect primer to the era as a whole. It outlines the enormous cultural changes that took place, in literacy, living standards, inequality and even the developing sense of self. From a warrior-led society to the age of Shakespeare, here lies the progress which underpins the modern world.