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This was a great read. The makers of Time-Life really had this down-packed.
a time in history i thought i knew very little about because i had never seen it presented as a whole. it seems to be perma war. probably the best way for men to eat. a type of birth control too.
After the fall of Rome, Europe fell into a period of barbarism for over a thousand years. This chronicles those Dark Ages in Europe, ably told by the editors of Time-Life, from 100 to 1095.
All my ancestors were barbarians.
Part of The Great Ages of Man series by Time-Life Books.
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- 1968
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- Adrian I, Pope (or Hadrian I, c. 700-795); Aetius (general); Agilulf (king of Lombards); Agobard of Lyons (779-840); Alaric the Bold (king of Visigoths); Alcuin (Alcuin of York) (show all 32); Alfred the Great (King of Wessex); Arcadius (Eastern Roman emperor); King Arthur; Ataulf (king of Visigoths); Attila the Hun; Augustine of Canterbury; Augustine of Hippo (Saint, 354-430); Bede or The Venerable Bede (673-735); Belisarius (general); Benedict of Nursia; Beowulf; Boniface (Saint, 675? to 754); Julius Caesar; Cnut the Great (Danish King); Cernunnos (Celtic god); Charlemagne; Charles Martel; Charles the Bald; Charles III, King of France (the Simple); Charles the Younger (son of Charlemagne); Childeric III (king of Franks); Clothilde (Burgundian princess); Clovis I (king of Franks); Constantine the Great; Constantine VI (Byzantine emperor); Thaschus Cæcilius Cyprian (200-258)
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- In December of the year 406 A.D., in what is now West Germany, the weather turned bitter cold.
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)In terms of political, social and economic development, leadership in the medieval world was passing to Europe, and the Europeans would show no signs of reliquishing it for centuries to come.
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