Medieval Horizons

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e tend to think of the iddle ges as a dark backward and unchanging time characterised by violence ignorance and superstition y contrast we believe progress arose from science and technological innovation and that inventions of recent centuries created the modern world

e couldnt be more wrong s an ortimer shows in this fascinating book peoples horizons their knowledge experience and understanding of the world expanded dramatically ife was utterly transformed between and marking the transition from a warriorled society to that of hakespeare

ust as he ime ravellers uide to edieval ngland revealed what it was like to live in the fourteenth century edieval orizons provides the perfect primer to the era as a whole t outlines the enormous cultural changes that took place from literacy to living standards inequality and even the developing sense of self thereby correcting misconceptions and presenting the period as a revolutionary age of fundamental importance in the development of the estern world