A History of the Middle Ages, 3001500 by John M. Riddle, Win... - 9781442246850

A History of the Middle Ages, 3001500Author(s): John M. Riddle, Winston Black\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Rowman & Littlefield\nISBN-13: 9781442246850, 978-1442246850\nSynopsis\nThis clear and comprehensive text covers the Middle Ages from the classical era to the late medieval period. Distinguished historian John Riddle provides a cogent analysis of the rulers, wars, and eventsboth natural and humanthat defined the medieval era. Taking a broad geographical perspective, Riddle includes northern and eastern Europe, Byzantine civilization, and the Islamic states. Each, he convincingly shows, offered values and institutionsreligious devotion, toleration and intolerance, laws, ways of thinking, and changing roles of womenthat presaged modernity. In addition to traditional topics of pen, sword, and word, the author explores other driving forces such as science, religion, and technology in ways that previous textbooks have not. He a.