Strange landscape: A journey through the Middle Ages
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The Middle Ages represented a flowering of spirituality and culture which, in Europe, has not been equalled since. This book examines some of the great writers and thinkers of the period and the... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0563369655
ISBN13:9780563369653
Release Date:January 1995
Publisher:BBC Books
Length:224 Pages
Weight:1.90 lbs.
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A Selected Glimpse at the Middle Ages
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
Christopher Frayling's Strange Landscape (A Journey Through the Middle Ages) is a companion book to the BBC series. Having never seen the series I cannot compare the two (although having read the book I would be fascinated how this could possibly have worked on television). The book has a marvelous introduction (the best part) that looks at the concept of the Middle Ages in today's culture and then follows with a section on cathedral building, the Cathars and St. Francis, Abelard versus Bernard of Clairvaux, and Dante. It is a very selective and idiosyncratic look at the middle ages but still quite interesting, both in its selection and its handling of material.
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