bookafnd reviewed Middle Ages by Eleanor Janega
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5 stars
it's a friendly, easily digested introduction to medieval history. It's only 176 pages long (& half of those pages are taken up by charming medieval-style cartoons) and covers approximately 1000 years of the history of a continent-sized area, so of course it's sparse on details. Gets away from the Victorian-era mythos that pop culture is rife with.