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Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom
Tom Holland
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Description for Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom
Paperback. * Tom Holland, author of RUBICON and PERSIAN FIRE, gives a thrilling panoramic account of the birth of the new Western Europe in the year 1000 Num Pages: 512 pages, Section: 24, b/w. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 197 x 34. Weight in Grams: 432.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Abacus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349119724
SKU
V9780349119724
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99-21
About Tom Holland
Tom Holland is an award-winning historian, author and broadcaster. He is the author of Rubicon: The Triumph and the Tragedy of the Roman Republic, which won the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize; Persian Fire, his history of the Graeco-Persian wars, won the Anglo-Hellenic League's Runciman Award in 2006; Millennium: The End of the ... Read more
Reviews for Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom
'Holland tells a cracking tale, vividly bringing this neglected era of monks, popes, knights and serfs back to life
David Sinclair, TRIBUNE
'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
A mighty narrative of kings ... Read more
David Sinclair, TRIBUNE
'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
A mighty narrative of kings ... Read more