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12/100Critics
67/100Scholars
Author:
Matthew Gabriele, David M. Perry
Publisher:
Harper
Date:
December 7, 2021
The Bright Ages takes us through ten centuries and crisscrosses Europe and the Mediterranean, Asia and Africa, revisiting familiar people and events with new light cast upon them. We look with fresh eyes on the Fall of Rome, Charlemagne, the Vikings, the Crusades, and the Black Death, but also to the multi-religious experience of Iberia, the rise of Byzantium, and the genius of Hildegard and the power of queens.
What The Reviewers Say
Ambitious.
Here Gabriele and Perry offer an imaginative and supremely inviting look at the Dark Ages, which they ingeniously repackage.
An engaging overview of a complex, yet often oversimplified era.
A spirited rebuttal to what they call the 'myth of the Dark Ages'.
