Medieval People: Vivid Lives in a Distant Landscape

by Michael Prestwich

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0500252033
• ISBN13: 9780500252031
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 2.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.5" x 9.9"