Description: The second part of the volume is about the course of events--ecclesiastical and secular--with regard to the papacy, the western empire (mainly Germany), Italy, France, Spain, the British Isles, Scandinavia, Hungary, Poland, the Byzantine empire and the settlements in Palestine and Syria established by the crusades and their Muslim neighbors.
Brief description: David Luscombe is Research Professor of Medieval History, University of Sheffield.
Review Quotes: "It is unquestionably magisterial ... produced with truly extraordinary accuracy."
The Catholic Historical Review