by Jean Verdon · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789500263948
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«Sombras y luces de la Edad Media» is Jean Verdon's essay on medieval history, published by El Ateneo in paperback (276 pages, in Spanish).
Against the clichéd image of a dark Middle Ages, Jean Verdon offers a balanced journey through ten centuries of the West, showing its darkest aspects alongside its achievements. With examples such as Charlemagne, Saint Louis or the Medici, he addresses daily life, science, the arts, the role of women, intolerance, pleasures and death.
The 2006 edition of «Sombras y luces de la Edad Media», published by El Ateneo, has ISBN 978-950-02-6394-8.
For readers of medieval history who want a nuanced view of the period, far from the cliché of the Middle Ages as a solely dark era.
