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Middle ages

Features nineteen full or excerpted documents written during the Middle Ages. Entries include excerpts from Augustine's Confessions and Dante's Inferno; Marco Polo's description of his travels in China; The Thousand and one nights; and Japan's "Seventeen-article constitution," written by Prince Shotoku Taishi. Each entry is accompanied by introductory and historical information to place the document in context as well as a document-specific glassary.

Audience
childrens
Length
medium · 226 pages

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