Penguin Atlas of Medieval History

The period from the reign of Constantine to the great voyages of discovery - or from the rought to the fifteenth century - was once seen merely as the long, slow decline and fall of the Roman Empire. Yet for Europeans, it is also a ""supreme story of defeat turned into victory"".



Colin McEvedy's pioneering atlas, revised and expanded for this new edition, treats as one unit the Mediterranean, Europe and the nomads steppeland to the East ( the habitat of Huns, Turks and Mongols)



The result is a wonderfully eloquent picture, as Dr. McEvedy puts it, ""of how old empires fell and new ones rose, and how, in Europe, a new society emerged which had the energy to break free from the geographical, intellectual and technical limitations that defined the medieval world.