Debating the Middle Ages
Subtitle: Issues and Readings
Contributors: Lester K. Little (Editor)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: September 1, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9781577180074
Subjects: European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); Historiography; World history: c 500 to C 1500; Middle Ages; Medieval World History (Circa 450 - Circa 1450); History - General History; History: World; Europe; Medieval; History / Medieval; MIDDLE AGES_HISTORY; History
First sentence: By his own account, rendered in two meticulously crafted versions, Edward Gibbon conceived the plan for his grandiose historical work, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, as he sat amid ancient ruins in Rome in 1764.