Medieval People: Vivid Lives in a Distant Landscape

A rich and revelatory exploration of the medieval world, conveyed through intimate biographies by a renowned historian

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...