Renaissance World

The Renaissance World, which began in the tumultuous days following the First Crusade, traces all the contradictions of a world in transition. As popes continued to preach crusades, the hope of a Christian empire approached a bloody end within the walls of Constantinople. While the Inquisition gained power, Aristotelian logic and Greek rationality also flourished. As kings and emperors insisted on their divine rights, peoples across the world seized power: the Lingayats of India, the Jacquerie rebellion in France, China's Red Turban Rebellion, and the peasants of England.

As the Ottomans emerged from a small Turkish village, the Mongols set out from the East to set the world ablaze. New coins were counterfeited, new weapons were invented, and world-changing catastrophes transformed the appearance of the world: the Little Ice Age, the great famine, and the plague led to the deaths of millions. In the chaos created by these groundbreaking events, the world began to take shape. The Renaissance World, wonderfully researched and brilliantly narrated, presents not only names, dates, and facts, but also unforgettable characters that illuminate the years between 1100 and 1453.

Another masterful introductory book from Bauer... Its perfectly fluid narrative, accompanied by timelines and maps, will captivate non-experts.

- Kirkus Review

It not only tells the story of world history… but also heralds the rebirth of classical education.

- Publishers Weekly