![]() He is well aware that this periodization is artificial, but as he says, at least that artificiality gets away from the teleological approach which sees its study as justified only by its "relevance" to modern development. Wickham's middle ages are traditional in circumscription-roughly AD 500 to 1500. However, this is a learned work and in no sense "medieval-lite": this is a view of the medieval past that commands respect, though not necessarily agreement. Wickham is a distinguished medievalist but here he wears his scholarship lightly, with no great thickets of footnotes or shrubberies of jargon. ![]() ![]() It is also intended to be accessible, and this is greatly assisted by a light and highly readable style. ![]() John short book (its text is only 257 pages) is not a history of Medieval Europe but an interpretation with a focus on change and its causes. ![]()
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