Review: Millennium: The End Of The World And The Forging Of Christendom
User Review - Daniel Hulmes - GoodreadsTom Holland's RubiconRubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic remains the best book I've read this year. Holland is a brilliant storyteller and the events of the late Roman Republic provided the ... Read full review
Review: Millennium: The End Of The World And The Forging Of Christendom
User Review - Gavin - GoodreadsTom Hollands' 'Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom', is truly a Herculean undertaking. It attempts to explore a period ranging from 8th century right through to the dawning ... Read full review
Review: Millennium: The End Of The World And The Forging Of Christendom
User Review - EvilNick - GoodreadsAs an antidote to all those books that appeared in 1999, sensationalising the end of the previous millennium and the idea that everyone thought the world was going to end, it tries to piece together ... Read full review
Review: Millennium: The End Of The World And The Forging Of Christendom
User Review - GoodreadsVery well written, this book describes events in Europe, the Caliphate and surrounding territories in the decades either side of the first millennium (1000AD). Although some of the main actors (for ...
Review: Millennium: The End Of The World And The Forging Of Christendom
User Review - Gareth Evans - GoodreadsExplains how Europe became a Christina continent and outlines the development of papal power. This is a broad topic, ranging from the Norman invasion of England, the development of Norse Christianity ... Read full review
Review: Millennium: The End Of The World And The Forging Of Christendom
User Review - Ryan - Goodreads5 years removed from his superior offering Rubicon, Holland seems to be in cruise control for this one... although the book's entertaining and informative, I get the feeling that Holland really doesn ... Read full review
Review: Millennium: The End Of The World And The Forging Of Christendom
User Review - Johanne - GoodreadsI really enjoyed Tom Hollands' previous book Rubicon, but I found Millennium a little bit less coherent. Rubicon is more dramatic, with charismatic personalities and huge political shifts that sweep ... Read full review
Review: Millennium: The End Of The World And The Forging Of Christendom
User Review - GoodreadsThis is the second Tom Holland book I read. This is a learned, but not overly dry, account of the history of Europe in the late 10th and 11th Centuries, as the Popes, Emperors and Saracens. I learned ...
Review: Millennium: The End Of The World And The Forging Of Christendom
User Review - GoodreadsA classic example of the 'don't expect Barolo when you're drinking Vinho Verde' class; this is airplane history and as such quite successful- easy to read and rollicking tales, backed up by little ...
Review: Millennium: The End Of The World And The Forging Of Christendom
User Review - Paul - GoodreadsAnother informative epic history from Tom Holland. I like his central theme of the impact that the idea of the End Of Time had in forming the medieval world, the irony being how substantial were the ... Read full review
