“The First Crusade had just ended–and with it, an age.” This third history from Susan Wise Bauer takes us from the late middle ages to the conquest of Constantinople. Bauer tells us early on that this is not a history of the Renaissance, but simply uses the Renaissance as the time signature that the history comprises. There’s plenty to say about using a primarily European event (especially one that ushers in the height of European Imperialism) as the marker for a world history, but in […]
Susan Wise Bauer
History of the Renaissance World by Susan Wise Bauer