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The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom
Tom Holland
ISBN: 9780316732451
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Little, Brown & Company
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With an epic sweep that transports us from the crucifixion to the First Crusade, and from the glitter of Constantinople to the bleak shores of Canada, Millennium is a study of a truly fateful revolution: the emergence of Western Europe for the first time as a distinctive and expansionist power. It was the age of Otto the Great and William the Conqueror, of Caliphs and Viking sea…
Of all the civilisations existing in the year 1000, that of Western Europe seemed the unlikeliest candidate for future greatness. Compared to the glittering empires of Byzantium or Islam, the splintered kingdoms on the edge of the Atlantic appeared impoverished, fearful and backward. But the anarchy of these years proved to be, not the portents of the end of the world, as many Christians had dreaded, but rather the birthpangs of a radically new order. MILLENNIUM is a stunning panoramic account of the two centuries on either side of the apocalyptic year 1000. This was the age of Canute, William the Conqueror and Pope Gregory VII, of Vikings, monks and serfs, of the earliest castles and the invention of knighthood, and of the primal conflict between church and state. The story of how the distinctive culture of Europe - restless, creative and dynamic - was forged from out of the convulsions of these extraordinary times is as fascinating and as momentous as any in history.
| ISBN | 0316732451 | | Pages | 512 | | ISBN13 | 9780316732451
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 001 | | Publisher | Little, Brown & Company | | Weight (grammes) | 925 | | Imprint | Little, Brown & Company | | Published in | New York | | Format | Hardback | | Height (mm) | 240 | | Publication date | 18 Sep 2008 | | Width (mm) | 162 | | Library of Congress | D111 | | Spine width (mm) | 42 | | DEWEY | 940.146 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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| | | List of Maps | | | | 1 | | The Return of the King | | 1 | | 2 | | The Old Order Changeth | | 49 | | 3 | | ...Yielding Place to New | | 129 | | 4 | | Go West | | 176 | | 5 | | Apocalypse Postponed | | 223 | | 6 | | 1066 and All That | | 282 | | 7 | | An Inconvenient Truth | | 330 | | | | Timeline | | 414 | | | | Notes | | 420 | | | | Bibliography | | 441 | | | | Index | | 463 |
** Fast and lively ... another blockbuster Jenny Diski, SUNDAY TIMES ** A mighty narrative of kings and popes, battles and massacres ... A tremendously good read SUNDAY TELEGRAPH MAGAZINE 'At last, a book that sheds much-needed light on those 1,000 years between Roman Britain and the Norman conquest that we call the dark ages Sue Arnold GUARDIAN 'Holland tells a cracking tale, vividly bringing this neglected era of monks, popes, knights and serfs back to life David Sinclair, TRIBUNE Blackwell review: Popular history at its very best. Holland looks at the year 1000 as the pivotal point when Western civilisation began to drag itself out of the Dark Ages. Customer reviews:  Be the first to write a customer review
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