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Very well put together. Chronologically, as well as in explaining other factors - the church, the crusades, the dynasties, and the rise and fall of the feudal system - separately. If there weren't so many books in my stack, I'd read it again. A perfect reference book.
Very detailed, to be sure, but ultimately unsatisfying. There's a lot of detail about which king fought which duke and so forth - but entire lifetimes go by in a couple of sentences and I'm no wiser as to what the world at the time was actually like for anyone (not even the people mentioned). Abandoned after completing 45%.
I did feel it was over waited towards France/Gaul . It was a pleasant read could not see why the concluding section was in the book. What was the reason for stopping at 1270?