I enjoyed this second book in Susan Wise Bauer's world history series. Here she tackles the history of the medieval world and does an excellent job. I again enjoyed the interspersing of concurrent events from around the world in adjacent chapters. I learned more about the history ofChina, Japan, ...
The Story of the World – History for the Classical Child- Volume 2- The Middle Ages by Susan Wise BauerEven if this is a book destined for a very different segment of the population, I must confess that not only I loved it, but I found things I did not know. For instance-The Mongols drew blood fr...
On that date, the kings of England, France, and Germany would depart for the Holy Land, prepared to drive Saladin out. “Let your hearts be strengthened in the Lord,” Henry II of England wrote to the beleaguered bishops in Jerusalem and Antioch. “Sooner than you could believe . . . vast multitudes...