I would like to begin learning the history of the Middle Ages, but I’m not sure where to start.
If you're someone who is dedicated then I highly recommend you get the Inheritance of Rome by Christopher WickhamIt is dense and at times quite dry, but it's the best book I know of
>>23311731I can second this. Finished it recently and was really impressed. I didnt find it dry but i can see why people could. Touches everything in the early middle ages with just the right amount of detail. Finishing it gives you a great vantage point for choosing something more specific to dig into, or for moving on into the later/high middle ages which probably has more high quality books written on it than any other period history. The important part is understanding how we go from the Mediterranean rome of antiquity to the feudal, chivalrous society we know of
>>23311703>history>by a womanI'm not even a mysogynist, but I do not trust the scholarship of 8/10 female scholars. I'll read the work of a woman writer, it is her own art, but to entrust her with history?! No. That just won't do. They are too intrinsically political and calculating. You cannot entrust history to mercenaries.
>>23311703Depends on the period and region but you can't go wrong with the Penguin series on Britain and Europe as a start.Yale English Kings series is also very good
>>23311703Middle Ages Revisited - Alexander Del Marhttps://heritage-history.com/index.php?c=read&author=delmar&book=middle&story=_front
>>23311703I’m reading picrel and I need to find out what to read next
>>23311703If you're looking for a general survey, Europe in the High Middle Ages by William Chester Jordan is a good starting point for the period.Feudalism by Marc Bloch is the classic social history of the period.
>>23311703this is pretty much your basic introduction to it and where I would start
The Waning of the Middle Ages
>>23312498>>23312760>>23313097>Pirenne, Bloch and Duby already postedToday /lit/ was veridic and heterosexual. Add Fustel de Coulanges.
>>23311703all the Braudel books are great, stuff about how the economy worked, and fairs were a big deal, and what people ate, how money worked back then.and A Distant Mirror by Tuchman is good too. the 1400 was like the last year before the world really started accelerating. the rebuild from the plague really made things take off
>>23312760this book is based and true, and it causes Muslims and libtards to seethe. Great recc
A world lit only by fire
>>23311703What are some cool books from medieval europe?
>>23315391The Icelandic Sagas
>>23315090I assume you meant Mahomet and Charlemagne by the same author. Libtards and muzzies are easily bothered but Medieval Cities? On 4chan based Pirenne is also more likely to bother the contrarian wehraboos that want to praise the retardo theories and rewritten histories that were current in Germany from the late 19th century to 1945 and plagued many social/human sciences to serve the Deutschland uber alles.
>>23311703Picrel comes well-recommended.
I'm currently enjoying 'unruly' by David Mitchell. I'm not really interested in history so i enjoy it because it is witty and smart.
