Last Apocalypse: Europe at the Year AD 1000 - Tapa dura

Reston, James

 
9780385483261: Last Apocalypse: Europe at the Year AD 1000
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ISBN 10: 0385483260 ISBN 13: 9780385483261
Editorial: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 1998

Sinopsis

A rich, panoramic, illustrated popular history traces the victories of the kings and popes of Christendom against the seemingly invincible Vikings, Moors, and Hungarian Magyars, shaking the world and confirming the popular belief that history was about to end.

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rld of 1000 A.D., when Vikings, Moors, and barbarians battled kings and popes for the fate of Europe.

As the millennium approached, Europeans feared the world would end. The old order was crumbling, and terrifying and confusing new ideas were gaining hold in the populace. Random and horrific violence seemed to sprout everywhere without warning, and without apparent remedy. And, in fact, when the millennium arrived the apocalypse did take place; a world did end, and a new world arose from the ruins.

In 950, Ireland, England, and France were helpless against the ravages of the seagoing Vikings; the fierce and strange Hungarian Magyars laid waste to Germany and Italy; the legions of the Moors ruled Spain and threatened the remnants of Charlemagne's vast domain. The papacy was corrupt and decadent, overshadowed by glorious Byzantium. Yet a mere fifty years later, the gods of the Vikings were dethroned, the shamans of the Magy

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Editorial
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
Año de publicación
1998
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0385483260
ISBN 13 
9780385483261
Encuadernación
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
299
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