[wagglebee]

The High and Late Middle Ages (from about the time of the Norman Conquest and start of the Crusades until the Renaissance) fascinate me, I’ve read hundreds of on the period and “A Distant Mirror” probably does the best job of explaining in “layman’s terms” the turmoil of the 14th Century.

Ken Follett has two novels (”The Pillars of the Earth” and “World Without End”) which deal with 12th Century and 14th Century England and they are both incredible. “World Without End” does an amazing job of showing what the Black Death did to labor, wages and prices.

[trisham]

Ken Follett has two novels (”The Pillars of the Earth” and “World Without End”) which deal with 12th Century and 14th Century England and they are both incredible. “World Without End” does an amazing job of showing what the Black Death did to labor, wages and prices.

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I'm going to pick up both. Thanks.

[Elsie]

INCREDIBLE does NOT do justice with the attention to detail he put in those two books!

I learned an AWFUL lot about HISTORY just by reading them.