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Medieval people, vivid lives in a distant landscape : from Charlemagne to Piero della Francesca, Michael Prestwich

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Medieval people, vivid lives in a distant landscape : from Charlemagne to Piero della Francesca, Michael Prestwich

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Medieval people

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Michael Prestwich

Sub title

vivid lives in a distant landscape : from Charlemagne to Piero della Francesca

Summary

"This engrossing, exquisitely illustrated, often witty account tells the life stories of some seventy individuals who "made" the Middle Ages. There are kings and queens, popes and politicians, soldiers and merchants, scholars, authors and visionaries. They range from the important, such as El Cid or Frederick Barbarossa, to the little known, such as the dissolute Venetian nun Clara Sanuto. Some were astonishingly successful: the empire created by Chinggis Khan was one of the most extensive ever seen. Some, such as Charles the Bold, the over-ambitious 15th–century duke of Burgundy, were failures."

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