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Pros
Brilliant research and analysis written as engagingly as a top selling novel. Personalities emerge, forgotten centres of vitality come alive under the spotlight. Highly recommend both books.
Tom holland shows a consummate understanding of europe in the dark ages. His almost novelistic style makes for very easy reading. Not at all stuffy as many historians can be.
It also discusses the development of the church, the muslim threat to constantinople and muslim * trade in europe. And the creation of the saxon kingdoms in england. Tolerance had been carefully set at a price, the extortion of protection money from b... Read More
Cons
It takes merit to ramble through 500 pages. Incoherent in the description of things. A fantastic waste of time and money.
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Quality
His writing is so clear, his historical research so accurate and detailed, his insights so vivid, i don't think i can honestly ... Read More
Sort through the sources, weigh them and just get on with it.
Chapter 3 , 'yielding place to new' provides how the feudal system was created and took root in europe, effectively enslaving t... Read More
It is hard to accurately predetermine the future.
Price
"tolerance had been carefully set at a price, the extortion of protection money from both christians and jews had been laid dow... Read More
Packaging/appearance
Wraped, boxed in styrafoam and in perfect shape.
Competitiveness
I couldn’t help comparing this to marc morris’s “the norman conquest” which covers some of the same ground.
Morris goes on and on comparing one obscure source with another with the story forgotten somewhere in the background.
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- This product had a total of 664 reviews as of our last analysis date on Apr 6 2024.
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Though i enjoyed it thoroughly it was not quite up to 34page turner34 status
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In part i think this is because many of the main characters were not well known to me
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My expectations were high when i heard the premise of the book
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That the expectation of christs return led to a revolution in the church which led to the crusades
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His breezy ironic style contrasts so perfectly with the earnestness and epicness of the times of which he writes yet he doesnt patronize his subjects
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Though i was familiar with the various dynasties and rulers of the era i was less clear on their relationship and history with the christian church in rome and the rise of papal power
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The book is so far a good read but the service from brit books ltd
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I couldn’t help comparing this to marc morris’s “the norman conquest” which covers some of the same ground
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