The beauty and levity that Perry and Gabriele have captured in this book are what I think will help it to become a standard text for general audiences for years to come....The Bright Ages is a rare thing?a nuanced historical work that almost anyone can enjoy reading.??Slate"Incandescent and ultimately intoxicating." ?The Boston GlobeA lively and magisterial popular history that refutes common misperceptions of the European Middle Ages, showing...
A magisterial new history of the Middle Ages that takes apart the common misunderstanding of the period as one of darkness, sickness, and oppression?but which in reality, like all of humanity, was complicated by spots of real beauty and communion.
