Early Times: The Story of the Middle Ages

By Suzanne Strauss Art

Book Overview

Knights in shining armor, wandering minstrels and jugglers, elegantly robed lords and ladies, gentle friars and learned monks - tournaments and village fairs, crenellated castles, soaring gothic cathedrals - the Middle Ages was certainly a colorful and exciting period. But it was also a dangerous time of war, superstition, and pestilence - a time when chaos and ignorance threatened to destroy European society and would have done so, were it not for the power of the Catholic Church. Meet the heroes and heroines of medieval Europe and discover through them the many facets of the kaleidoscopic world in which they lived.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1877653306
• ISBN13: 9781877653308
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Ingram
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.9" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 10 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 8

Customer Reviews

Good Middle School text for this topic

This author does a very good job of providing a good basic introduction to historical eras and this is a fine entry in the series. I think the edition on the Renaissance is most likely the best but this one is also very thorough and serves as a good jumping off point for your student. I use this in 6th grade for an accelerated reader, but this would work for 6th to 8th grade students. I supplement this with a History of art text, as there are not a great deal of illustrations.