The Horrible, Miserable Middle Ages

A fascinating new portrait of Medieval Britain that brings together the everyday and the extraordinary.

For the first time, a group of distinguished authors come together to provide an authoritative exploration of the cultural history of tragedy in the Middle Ages. Reports of the so-called death of medieval tragedy, they argue, have been greatly exaggerated; and, for the Middle Ages, the stakes couldn't ...

Examines the history of the Middle East after the Gulf War and explains why hoped for political, social, and economic reforms never happened.