Guest on Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
2 books recommended · 1 episode
Books they recommend that someone else wrote.
“Chris Wickham, brilliant scholar of the early Middle Ages, wrote an amazing book called The Inheritance of Rome and it asked the question, after the fall of the Western Roman empire, what comes into that space?”
The Inheritance of Rome by Chris Wickham
Guest on Dan Carlin's Hardcore HistoryPowers Thrones and Dan Jones
“You know what? So one of those classic books that you've referenced, I don't know, I mean, tell me if you enjoyed this book as well when you were growing up, was Barbara Tuttman's A Distant Mirror.”
Why: It takes the calamitous 14th century and uses it as a distant mirror on the 20th century.
A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman
Guest on Dan Carlin's Hardcore HistoryPowers Thrones and Dan Jones