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From the schism of Rome and Constantinople to the rise of the T'ang Dynasty and to the birth of Muhammad, this erudite book tells the fascinating, often violent story of medieval kings, generals and the people they ruled.
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Susan Wise Bauer is the bestselling author of the Story of the World series for elementary students, The Well-Educated Mind, and The History of the Ancient World, and coauthor of The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home. She is a faculty member in English at the College of William and Mary in Virginia, where she teaches writing and literature. British narrator John Lee has read audiobooks in almost every conceivable genre, from Charles Dickens to Patrick O'Brian, and from the very real life of Napoleon to the entirely imagined lives of sorcerers and swashbucklers. He has won numerous Audie Awards and AudioFile Earphones Awards, and he was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile in 2009. Lee is also an accomplished stage actor and wrote and coproduced the feature films Breathing Hard and Forfeit.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: The History Of The Medieval World (Hardcover)
Who doesn't know Susan Wise Bauer? It's a fair question because until last year I didn't know who she was. Have you heard or read the Story of the World? Then you know who she is and you are probably thinking that this book will be marvellous.Well, it is. From what I have read, I appreciate her skills and her talent of bringing history to life. This book is written more for the high school ages (grades 9 to 12) - literally. The romance style has been dropped but she is presenting the history of the medieval world in an accurate way. The book starts with Constantine and goes up to the Crusades. It will make the student go through various civilizations to see how history has been written over time. Throughout the book detailed maps illustrates the history as you read. Also at the end of each chapter you will find a timeline which will help you visualize when and where this part of history has taken place. You will read about the rise and fall of Empires time - Romans, Chinese, Indian, and Persian to name only a few - and how they intertwined each other through. You will learn more about the various people who made history and how they dealt with revolts, how they made decisions and their life in general. I so wish I had a physical copy to read and write comments or insights inside as I read... but I had the privilege to read from an online copy. I consider myself blessed to have been exposed to the works of Susan Bauer Wise for a higher level student. This is definitively a series worth looking into if you want your high school student to learn more about history. This book has more than 85 chapters to cover the history of the Medieval World and the time I had to review it wasn't enough for me to read through the whole book. But I was greatly pleased with the chapters I've read and learn a lot about the major events and the people from this time. This review was possible because I was given access to the online edition of the book The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade by Well-Trained Mind.
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4.4 out of 5 stars (25 customer reviews) 75 of 79 people found the following review helpful
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Very well done,
By LikeBooksTooMuch "LikeBooksTooMuch" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The History Of The Medieval World (Hardcover)
After spending too much of my life on technology and engineering, I have been spending my last 10 years reading History for Fun. It is my pleasure and my passion.I'm still learning a lot about history so I can't claim to be an expert. I can't claim that Bauer is "correct". But at this point, I read multiple histories from multiple authors to generate my own view. But Bauer's book is a great place to start to get a readable over-view of "medieval" history to allow one to start to drill down into areas and times of particular interest. (Or maybe just get enough to move on to the next era.) But this, by far, is the most readable history books that cover such a long period of time over such a wide area (the whole earth). Why? The chapters average around 10 pages. Each chapter will cover a period of about 20-50 years in a particular area (Western Europe, Middle East, India, Korea, Japan, China, etc). It makes a nice nugget. As time change, an area may be "West Francia", "Spain", or "North Africa". Each chapter is relatively self-contained, as much as possible, within the context of a 600 page continuing narrative. Each chapter is easy to read, fascinating, and there always seems to be a little "humor" in the background. This is a narrative; about kings, queens, popes, dukes, eunuchs, states, nations, wars... "Classic narrative history", it doesn't spend any time talking about what it meant to be a young boy in Korea in 814 or marriage rites in Persia or bathing habits in France. (Thank God.) Susan Bauer is a great writer, but paired with Norton Press, it makes a great book. The production is just great. Each chapter has at least one map. The map covers the area being discussed in the chapter. Every city, river, tribe, clan, state mentioned within the text is marked on the map. (There were a few little slip-ups but it became a game for me, as I love maps). There are so few productions that take the time to make sure that a map relates to the text and the text relates to the map. The other great production part of the book is that there are 2 different footnotes. Footnotes that reference original sources are placed in the back of the book; footnotes that are really sidelines, are at the bottom of the page. I hate books that mix source references and side notes; it is just lazy publishing. But Norton does Bauer's work well. Side-lines, and there are not that many, are at the bottom of the page; you don't have to switch back and forth. (A sign the publisher cared about people actually trying to read the book.) Third great feature of the book is that each chapter ends with a timeline, actually parallel timelines that cover major events and rulers in surrounding areas. It allows one to re-anchor the last 10-15 pages into the bigger context of time and space. It is a long book, but if you have any interest in understanding the world between 400-1100, I think this is a great place to start. I wish this had been available 10 years ago. 15 of 17 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Readable, organized history,
By A. Smith - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: The History Of The Medieval World (Hardcover)
Susan Bauer has written a fabulous history of the time period often referred to as the "dark ages." It was, of course, an enormous task to summarize 1000 years of history into 650 pages, but Bauer did a wonderful job. It is superbly organized, and Bauer's prose is engaging. Each chapter has at least one map marking places indicated in the text, and the chapters are brief. It's organization also makes it easy to use as a reference if some readers aren't ambitiously motivated to read the entire volume. I heartily recommend this book for the family library.
18 of 22 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Better than a textbook, but not quite popular history,
By Enjolras - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The History Of The Medieval World (Hardcover)
I have pretty mixed feelings about this book. It's certainly more entertaining than most history textbooks, and probably a good introduction to Medieval history. Still, I wouldn't really recommend it as a popular history book that one could relax and read. It jumps around too much and throws out too many names, dates, and events too quickly. After reading it through, I felt I could barely remember much of it. I'd recommend using this book more asa reference or reading chapters about certain periods of interest. The chapters don't really connect in any significant way anyways. Ultimately, I'd like to see this book - or one like it - used as a high school textbook.
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