Atlas of Medieval Europe
Keith Edward Beebe
The second edition of this atlas makes significant improvements to the first edition, reviewed in these pages June 1999 (rev. ante, cxiv, 703–4), including forty new maps, and offers greater attention ‘peripheries’ Europe, Poland, Scandinavia, Eastern Portugal Low Countries, which had been neglected earlier volume. As original begins with a map offering picture main geographical boundaries work. This covers physical extent Europe borders Mediterranean, Byzantium eastern crusades as matter course—inclusions that thought require justification ten years ago. Now, effort has made include areas previously overlooked, maps on ‘Scandinavian kingdoms, c.1000’, ‘Poland Central Middle Ages’, for example. With exception illustration features Western each provided comes page or two commentary. Appended commentary is an updated bibliography, it pleasure note detailed, useful, somewhat quirky index remains such. (The references ‘sheep’ have, if anything, expanded.)
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