Forces and thrones. The new history of the Middle Ages. Jones D.

The plunder of the once powerful barbarians, and in 410, the end of the former era and the beginning of a thousand -year -old deep transformation lying in the ruins of Rome. In an exciting narrative, abounding well -known names - from St. Augustine and Attila to the Prophet Muhammad and Alienora Aquitaine - Dan Jones explores the history of the Middle Ages and accompanies readers on a journey through developing Europe, the great capitals of late antiquity and influential cities of the Islamic West. The medieval world was formed by powerful forces that are relevant today: climate change, pandemia, mass migration and technological revolutions. It was a time when the great European nations were born, the main Western systems of law and management were codified, the Christian church became a powerful institution and regulator of Western public morality, and art, architecture, philosophical research and scientific thought experienced periods of revolutionary changes. The West was restored on the ruins of the Roman Empire and left the state of the crisis, starting to dominate the world. Each sphere of human life and activity felt transformations on itself.