The History of Medieval Europe
by Maurice Keen · first published 1991
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Bright Ages (The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe https://a.co/d/0axSFSi) is a fantastic book on this. It highlights the growing, current historical view of continued European growth and development and not the post-Roman ruin. Basically it’s an anti-dark-age…
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