Medieval Horizons. Why the Middle Ages Matter / Книга на Английском (Mortimer Ian); Bodley Head, 2023

We tend to think of the Middle Ages as a dark, backward and unchanging time characterised by violence, ignorance and superstition. By contrast we believe progress arose from science and technological innovation, and that inventions of recent centuries created the modern world.

We couldn't be more wrong. As Ian Mortimer shows in this fascinating book, people's horizons - their knowledge, experience and understanding of the world - expanded dramatically. Life was utterly transformed between 1000 and 1600, marking the transition from a warrior-led society to that of Shakespeare.

Just as The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England revealed what it was like to live in the fourteenth century, Medieval Horizons provides the perfect primer to the era as a whole. It outlines the enormous cultural changes that took place - from literacy to living standards, inequality and even the developing sense of self - thereby correcting misconceptions and presenting the period as a revolutionary age of fundamental importance in the development of the Western world.

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Параметр	Значение
ISBN	9781847927446
Автор(ы)	Mortimer Ian
Вес	0.46
Возрастное ограничение	16+
Год издания	2023
Жанр	проза на иностранном языке
Издатель	Bodley Head
Издательство	Bodley Head
Кол-во страниц	256
Количество книг	1
Количество страниц	256
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