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Sto caricando le informazioni... Millennium: Re, predoni, cavalieri e la nascita della cristianità (Saggi. Tascabili) (Italian Edition) (2008)di Tom Holland
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Buen repaso de la historia alrededor del Mediterraneo (y un poquito más allá) en los dos siglos alrededor del milenio. Bien escrito con ese humor irónico propio de los ingleses ( ) This book takes a look at European History from about 800 - 1200AD. The subject is interesting, the writing style somewhat flowery, but personable and understandable. This book makes a good introductory, and not too detailed, text to the time period. The book includes the useful addition of maps and a timeline. Millennium covers a largely unfamiliar piece of history for me - the +/- 200 years from 1000AD. It was a time when people were reading their Bibles (actually the reading was being done for them) and expecting the return of Jesus and the end of the world. It was a dreadful time to be sure, but it appears that many ignored the advice of Augustine that the time of the return could not be predicted. Tom Holland writes history not as a collection of facts, but as an essay, interpreting and illustrating as he goes along. My problem (and it's mine) is that it does not suit my reading style - the sentences are quite long, and I appear to have the attention span of a gnat. This is a book about the period of approximately 200 years on both sides of the first millennium AD and about the evolving relationship between the pope and various kings and princes in Western Europe, chiefly the Germanic Holy Roman Emperors and the shifting influence and importance of the Roman church. It was informative and well-written and kept me engaged all the way through.
" In "The Forge of Christendom," Tom Holland (whose last book, "Rubicon," traced the end of the Roman Republic) provides an entertaining account of the fraught last years of the Dark Ages, when a confused and suffering Europe contemplated the End of Days and yet, much to its surprise, woke up on New Year's Day 1000 to a brighter future than it could have imagined."
At the approach of the first millennium, the Christians of Europe did not seem likely candidates for future greatness. Weak, fractured, and hemmed in by hostile nations, they saw no future beyond the widely anticipated Second Coming of Christ. But when the world did not end, the peoples of Western Europe suddenly found themselves with no choice but to begin the heroic task of building a Jerusalem on earth. In The Forge of Christendom, Tom Holland masterfully describes this remarkable new age, a time of caliphs and Viking sea kings, the spread of castles and the invention of knighthood. It was one of the most significant departure points in history: the emergence of Western Europe as a distinctive and expansionist power. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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