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The Making of the Middle Ages

by R.W. Southern · 1953

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This is an absorbing study of the main personalities & influences that molded the history of Western Europe from the late 10th to the early 13th century. Southern describes the chief forms of social, political & religious organization.

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adult
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medium · 290 pages

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