The Story of the Middle Ages

by Christine Miller

As the story of medieval Europe was never told in a single volume of Guerber’s histories, but rather piecemeal throughout several volumes, Christine Miller has taken those portions of The Story of Old France and The Story of the English by H. A. Guerber which do tell the story of the Middle Ages, and has woven them together into a single, seamless narrative, carefully preserving Guerber’s own style. Several chapters were also taken from Charlotte Yonge’s A Young Folk’s History of Germany, and The Story of the Christians and Moors of Spain. Where necessary, the chapters authored by C. M. Yonge were re-written in Guerber’s unique style to preserve the continuity and consistency of the narrative throughout.

Genres: History, Nonfiction

paperback

First published January 1, 2000

Reviews

[Courtney Clark · Rating 2 out of 5]

I wish there was a better middle grades history series.

[Julie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Since this covers the history of both France and England during the Middle Ages, it compacts a lot of information into its 300 pages. The information is hurled at the reader very fast making it impossible to assimilate very much into the brain. The book would frequently start a section with, "As you no doubt recall....," which wouldn't be the case at all, thereby causing much frustration and bitterness. The value of this to our family was that its short and well-written individual passages were conducive to our practice of narration.

[Nancy]

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