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Old 10-03-2009, 10:26 AM   #676
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Default Re: What are you reading?

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Originally Posted by markem View Post
An interesting book on the modern interpretation of the middle ages is Noman Cantor's "Inventing the Middle Ages". The book "Europe in the High Middle Ages" by William Jordan is excellent.

This time period is popular with fiction writers, who seem to want to come across as historians, so one has to be quite careful. Good luck!

Note that just because I say a book is good doesn't mean that I think that it is easy to read or digest.
Thanks! I am putting the Cantor book on my reserve list at the library.
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