Later medieval Europe: From Saint Louis to Luther

by Daniel Philip Waley

306p paperback, marginally a little dusty, text clean, this copy published in the year 1975

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Medieval, European History, Medieval History

306 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1964

Reviews

[Nick Stengel]

Pretty dry, but hey, the author is covering 270 years in 300 pages. At level of condensing, it read like a wiki article. Which is to say, lots of facts, good organization, and not much interest. If you treat it like a reference book, which it is, it's quite good.

[Michael]

A very quick zip around roughly 300 years of history in Western Europe. The 13th and 14th centuries are particularly ones that I do not know much about; unfortunately the feeling I had after reading this book was not that I learnt what happened, but that I became aware of how much I don't know. Waley doesn't give explanations of the most major of figures; he takes it as assumed knowledge. This is okay if you have an idea of the time period but for me this was a bit of problem, especially with French kings. Overall, not bad for a very quick overview, and there were some stand-out chapters like the one on Burgundy, but perhaps not ideal as a introductory text to any of the time periods or places covered.

[Suz Davidson]

Nicer-than-average textbook exploring this time period from political, economic, religious, artistic and intellectual points of view.

[NDV135]

This was just the kind of book that I was looking for. It gave a good concise overview (mostly on politics, with a lesser amount of other areas), that will help me as I dive deeper and deeper into learning about the Later Middle Ages.

[Olga]

Informative but a bit painful to read.