The Story of Civilization: THE AGE OF FAITH, A History of Medieval Civilization-Christian, Islamic, and Judaic-from Constantine to Dante A.D. 325-1300
by Will Durant
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Read in January, 2006
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Anyone intersted in history
This is part of a very readable series that I'm currently reading 9very slowly) over breakfast. It's filling in lots of details in my background knowledge of the Middle Ages, is well written and presents a nice balance between great deeds of great men and daily life of more ordinary folk. It is of it's time - some of the views of women, sexuality, race, religion etc are, well, understandably dated. However because of this the descriptions of the origins of Islam are clearer and more balanced tha...more
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