The Cambridge Medieval History: Volume 2, The Rise of the Saracens and the Foundation of the Western Empire

by John Bagnell Bury (Editor)

The Rise of the Saracens and the Foundation of the Western Empire

Genres: Medieval, History, Reference

914 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1913

About the author

John Bagnell Bury (often published as J.B. Bury) was a classical scholar, historian, and philologist. He held the chair in Modern History at Trinity College, Dublin, for nine years, and also was appointed Regius Professor of Greek at Trinity, and Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University.

Reviews

[Galicius · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a good follow-up to Gibbon written a couple of centuries later. I selected chapters that interested me which was a bit more than half of this writing, in particular those concerning the Slavs and Avars.