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George Burton Adams
ASIN: B00PXG9I2W
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 472

Pyrrhus Press specializes in bringing books long out of date back to life, allowing today’s readers access to yesterday’s treasures. This is a history of medieval Europe after the collapse of the Roman Empire and before the Renaissance.  From the preface:“The object of this book is to show how the foundations of our civilization were laid in the past and how its chief elements were introduced, and to depict its progressive development until it had assumed its most characteristic modern features. Its purpose is to show the movement and direction of historic forces, and the relation of the facts of history one to another. In other words, it is to present as clear a view as possible of what is the most important thing for all introductory study at least, and for the permanent intellectual furniture of most—the orderly and organic growth of our civilization. If anywhere the details have ...
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4 stars from 20 ratings