{"product_id":"9780674975361","title":"Middle Ages","description":"Since the fifteenth century, when humanist writers began to speak of a   “middle” period in history linking their time to the ancient world, the   nature of the Middle Ages has been widely debated. Across the  millennium  from 500 to 1500, distinguished historian Johannes Fried  describes a  dynamic confluence of political, social, religious,  economic, and  scientific developments that draws a guiding thread  through the era: the  growth of a culture of reason.“Fried’s  breadth of knowledge is  formidable and his passion for the period  admirable…Those with a true  passion for the Middle Ages will be  thrilled by this ambitious defensio.”—Dan Jones, Sunday Times“Reads   like a counterblast to the hot air of the liberal-humanist  interpreters  of European history…[Fried] does justice both to the  centrifugal  fragmentation of the European region into monarchies,  cities, republics,  heresies, trade and craft associations, vernacular  literatures, and to  the persistence of unifying and homogenizing  forces: the papacy, the  Western Empire, the schools, the friars, the  civil lawyers, the bankers,  the Crusades…Comprehensive coverage of the  whole medieval continent in  flux.”—Eric Christiansen, New York Review of Books“[An]   absorbing book…Fried covers much in the realm of ideas on monarchy,   jurisprudence, arts, chivalry and courtly love, millenarianism and papal   power, all of it a rewarding read.”—Sean McGlynn, The Spectator","brand":"Johannes Fried, Peter Lewis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45803003445566,"sku":"9780674975361","price":0.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4357\/7662\/products\/9780674975361_a09470be-8b6c-4c6e-8102-bf7c93dd17ea.jpg?v=1707308644","url":"https:\/\/exclusivebooks.co.za\/products\/9780674975361","provider":"Exclusive Books Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}