This was the time when the great European nationalities were formed when our basic Western systems of law and governance were codified when the Christian Churches matured as both powerful institutions and the regulators of Western public morality and when art, architecture, philosophical inquiry and scientific invention went through periods of massive, revolutionary change. The medieval world was forged by the big forces that still occupy us today: climate change, pandemic disease, mass migration, and technological revolutions. Powers and Thrones takes readers on a journey through an emerging Europe, the great capitals of late Antiquity, as well as the influential cities of the Islamic West, and culminates in the first contact between the old and new worlds in the sixteenth century. In a gripping narrative bursting with big names-from St Augustine and Attila the Hun to the Prophet Muhammad and Eleanor of Aquitaine-Dan Jones charges through the history of the Middle Ages. When the once-mighty city of Rome was sacked by barbarians in 410 and lay in ruins, it signaled the end of an era-and the beginning of a thousand years of profound transformation.
An epic reappraisal of the medieval world-and the rich and complicated legacy left to us by the rise of the West-from the New York Times bestselling author of The Templars.
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