Title: Superficial, biased and glib
Product review: This is a vacuous, oversimplified mess. The author glibly makes wisecracks that are either insulting to people from early days or are incomprehensible to someone seeking to learn a few facts of European History. I will also say that I got the book because I have been reading a complete history of the Popes and I wanted to "fit" each Pope into his proper historical period- well guess what? I imagine because this is under the "dummies" title - but the author rarely tells you the YEARS that each of the rulers reigned, with a few exceptions, of course - the result it that the middle ages, as per usual, blends into a goofy, society of creative anachronisms type of stew.Skip this if you want to learn anything about history. I also agree with the other poster regarding the downplaying and negligible discussion of the inquisition - and I am a Roman Catholic. Let's not rewrite history.
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