Reviews
'The rich diversity of the period is admirably conveyed ... and visually enhanced by hundreds of the fine illustrations. With maps, chronology and a comprehensive reading-list, this attractively produced reference book will appeal to a wide readership.'David L. Edwards, Church Times, 'With over 200 magnificent illustrations, this is likely to become astandard introduction to the subject.'Good Book Guide, 'The volume is full of splendid illustrations, some in full colour, many of them unusual, and these make a notable contribution to the quality of the book. We should be grateful to the entire production team, and not least to the printers, for having done an outstanding job in making availablea volume which deserves to sell well at the very reasonable price at which it has been published.'French History, 'In this beautifully illustrated collection of essays the editor and his six collaborators present a picture of that civilization which is well written and well presented.' Contemporary Review, 'the contributors have lucidity as well as learning in common. This book will make a good companion for sightseeing trips abroad.'Bob Marshall, Bookseller, 'The individual chapters are scholarly and up to the minute, without lossof accessibility or pace. The illustrations are many, apposite and refreshinglyunhackneyed.'Times Literary Supplement, 'the contributors have lucidity as well as learning in common. This bookwill make a good companion for sightseeing trips abroad.'Bob Marshall, Bookseller, 'a splendid volume, presenting contemporary scholarship to the general reader with care, grace, much thought and many illustrations; filled with things that most general readers won't know at all, and that many specialist readers won't have thought of'London Review of Books, 'Among the individual contributors the palm goes to Edward James for his masterly survey of northern Europe 400-900 ... The illustrations have been well selected and excellently reproduced' James Howard-Johnston, Sunday Times, 'a splendid volume, presenting contemporary scholarship to the generalreader with care, grace, much thought and many illustrations; filled with thingsthat most general readers won't know at all, and that many specialist readerswon't have thought of'London Review of Books, 'Among the individual contributors the palm goes to Edward James for hismasterly survey of northern Europe 400-900 ... The illustrations have been wellselected and excellently reproduced'James Howard-Johnston, Sunday Times, 'In this beautifully illustrated collection of essays the editor and hissix collaborators present a picture of that civilization which is well writtenand well presented.'Contemporary Review, 'The individual chapters are scholarly and up to the minute, without loss of accessibility or pace. The illustrations are many, apposite and refreshingly unhackneyed.'Times Literary Supplement, 'The rich diversity of the period is admirably conveyed ... and visuallyenhanced by hundreds of the fine illustrations. With maps, chronology and acomprehensive reading-list, this attractively produced reference book willappeal to a wide readership.'David L. Edwards, Church Times