About this title: DESCRIPTION OF BOOK: THE PAGEANT OF THEMIDDLE AGES - IN THEOLOGY, HISTORY, TRAVEL, SCIENCE, EDUCATION, AND IMAGINATIVE LITERATURE- BROUGHT TO LIFE BY WRITERS OF THE PERIOD 1050-1500. DANTE ALIGHIERI, FRANCESCO PETRARCA, GEOFFREY CHAUCER, SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS, PETER ABELARD, LEONARDO DA VINCI, ROGER BACON, AND DOZENS OF OTHERS. "A CROSS SECTION ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Date Published: 1977-05-26
ISBN-13:9780140150469ISBN:0140150463
Description: Good. Good title in good condition. Pages are clean and tight. Covers show some shelf wear and bumping. Satisfaction guaranteed. If item not as described, return for refund of purchase price. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: The Viking Press, New York
Date Published: 1956
Description: Fair. No Jacket as Issued. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. 690 pages. Wraps are very worn and soiled. A dime sized scuff appears on the front over the "e" in Reader. Corners are scuffed and curled. Edges are heavily soiled. Text is tight and clean with some folded corner tips but without any underlining, marks or marginalia. "The astonishing world of the MIddle Ages brought to life fo the modern reader through a rich variety of writings from four centuries. " read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Viking Press
Date Published: 1955
Description: Good. Great reading copy, clean, fresh, complete, no serious flaws. Has former owner name inside cover, but no writing on text pages. MendoPower Employment Services packs all books carefully in bubble wrap envelopes. We appreciate your business and welcome any questions. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books, NY
Date Published: 1977
ISBN-13:9780140150469ISBN:0140150463
Description: Cover Design By Melissa Jacoby; Cover Art, 'History of St. Lubin', North Rose Window of Chartres Cathedral. Fine. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Trade paperback. xiv, 690pp. NO stamps or markings. No reading creases. Stain to parts of fore-and bottom-edge but does not affect interior. read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Viking
Date Published: 1972
ISBN-13:9780670010462ISBN:0670010464
Description: Very Good- As issued No Jacket. Slight spine lean, pen mark on right edge of bookk, edgewear to the front cover, scratches to both covers, and other light shopwear. Older cover(green background with decorations). read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Viking
Date Published: 1956
Description: Fair. Acceptable condition used paperback with some cover wear. Great reading copy! May have the previous owner's name inside front cover. Top corner of fly leaf 3/8" x 3/4" has been cut out. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking
Date Published: 1965
Description: Good Condition in Fair jacket. 690 pages. Ex-library with typical marks, light wear and yellowing; tight book. THe dj has some creasing and wear to edges; wrapped; glued inside covers. "The astonishing world of the Middle Ages brought to life for the modern reader through a rich variety of writings from four centuries. " Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 0 oz. Inventory No: 079346. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Viking Press, New York
Date Published: 1949
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Highlighting/underlining. ML INA PPR 270 2.23.2009. xiv, 690 p. 17 cm. The Viking portable library, 46.. "Suggestions for further reading": p. 30-33. read more
Description: Good; 1963. Aged, good used condition with some wear and discoloration. Marking on first 2 pages of book.; Paperback; Viking Press; New York; Sixteenth Printing; 16mo 6"-7" tall; 690 pages; , read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: The Viking Press
Date Published: 1962
Description: Good. ---Interior is clean and tight. 690 pages. 15th printing, November 1962. Nice overall. -Publish Place: New York-Size: 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. read more
"On one level, nothing beats this: going straight to the source, reading what the ancients had to say about their lives, their world, their thoughts. Bernard of Gui describing the Inquisition, not as someone trying to justify it to posterity but simply as a leader of that movement describing what it was he did; or Roger Bacon laying out the principles of what we would come to call the scientific method--while at the same time expressing his own deep faith, and his certainty that this method he was explaining was a most excellent way to draw closer to God. It's true what they say, that the seeds of the modern world were sown in the medieval period, and this book brings that home forcefully and clearly.
I really only have one quibble: the only context for the many excerpts comes from a long essay at the beginning by the editors, but with a book this long (nearly 700 pages), it isn't long before you've forgotten most of what was in the introduction. I suppose I could have kept leafing back to the intro, but I kept thinking how it would have been to have a few lines before each piece, describing who wrote it and what the context was. Instead, I kept finding myself going to Wikipedia to find out more. (Not the worst thing in the world, as it means I was thoroughly engaged with the book and kept wanting to expand beyond it. Still, it would have been to have had dozens of smaller intros rather than, or in addition to, the one big essay at the front.)"
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