本书作者为大众历史作家，曾为BBC大量历史纪录片撰稿，文笔比较生动易懂。可以为希望较概括了解地中海地区历史的读者提供指引。

本书作者为大众历史作家，曾为BBC大量历史纪录片撰稿，文笔比较生动易懂。可以为希望较概括了解地中海地区历史的读者提供指引。

R.W.Southern presents an absorbing study of the main personalities and influences that molded the history of Western Europe from the late tenth to the early thirteenth centuries - the formative period of modern Western civilization.He describes the chief forms of social,political,and riligious organization,analyzing a wealth of concrete,highly significant episodes.Like no other...(展开全部)

R.W.Southern presents an absorbing study of the main personalities and influences that molded the history of Western Europe from the late tenth to the early thirteenth centuries - the formative period of modern Western civilization.He describes the chief forms of social,political,and riligious organization,analyzing a wealth of concrete,highly significant episodes.Like no other...(展开全部)

The subject of this book is the formation of Western Europe from the late 10th to the early 13th century. During these years the economic face of Europe and its position in the world were transformed. Civilization, as we understand it today, was born. Although the period witnessed great historical events, such as the capture of Jerusalem by the Crusaders in 1099 and of Constant...(展开全部)

The Mediterranean has nurtured three of the most dazzling civilisations of antiquity, witnessed the birth or growth of three of our greatest religions and links three of the world’s six continents. To the peoples living around its periphery, it has served at various times as a cradle and a grave, a bond and a barrier, a blessing and a battlefield. It has inspired writers from H...(展开全部)

This lively and dramatic book brings roaring to life the grand sweep of 5,000 years of history in the cradle of civilization.A wonderfullyillustrated account of the civilizations that rose and fell on the lands bordering the Mediterranean, The Middle Sea represents the culmination of a great historian’s unparalleled art and scholarship. John Julius Norwich provides brilliant ...(展开全部)