Nardo,
Don. Medieval Europe. Morgan Reynolds 126p $28.95 978-1-59935-172-8 secondary Series:
World History Good
This is an accessible history of the unique time in Europe between the fall
of Rome and the Renaissance. With liberal use of
primary-source
documents, the author has written a very usable, appropriately illustrated book
for research. Side bars can be found
throughout the book, highlighting information relevant to the adjacent text, such as "Spain’s visionary
monarchs" (page 48) and "Attempts to regulate sanitation" (page 82). Primary-source illustrations include a 15th-century miniature (page 25) and a
hand-colored
woodcut of the seal of the Merchant Guild of Gloucester, England, circa 1200
(page 55).
The book concludes
with a timeline, list of resources, bibliography (print and web), glossary, and index.
This series, which consists of eight
titles, is very informative and will find use in secondary libraries where
students conduct research about the periods covered by these books. --Lynn Fisher
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