Will Durant · 1950
A historical survey of medieval civilization across Europe, Islam, and Judaism.
Dan Carlin recommends it because it compresses a vast amount of historical attack data into an understandable police-blotter format and features valuable outdated information.
The volume compiles primary accounts to document the pervasive pessimism and grim psychological climate gripping medieval European populations around 900 AD.
Military historians tracing medieval Viking raids who need localized descriptions of foreign attacks recorded by contemporary chroniclers.
Skip if you require modern scholarly consensus, as the text relies on older historical methods and outdated source material.
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A speaker recommends a book written by someone else.
“in his classic work, The Age of Faith, historian Will Durant in a condensed and edited account from a, it appears, monk in southern France, gives a sense of the feeling…”
Dan Carlin, Host on Dan Carlin's Hardcore HistoryDan Carlin's Hardcore History 70 - Twilight of the Æsir II
“how about 1950s the age of faith by will durant and a lot of these old history books are outdated in a lot of respects but this is the kind of information that isn't…”
Why: Compresses a vast amount of historical attack data into an understandable police-blotter format.
Dan Carlin, Host on Dan Carlin's Hardcore HistoryTwilight of the Aesir
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