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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Climate change and mass migrations drove the fall of the great Western Roman Empire.
Chapter 3: In the sixth century, the Eastern Roman Empire transformed into a vast Byzantine superstate.
Chapter 4: In the seventh and eighth centuries, Islam’s foundation fostered the creation of a far-reaching Islamic Empire that spanned regions.
Chapter 5: After Franks revived a Christian, pseudo-Roman empire in the West, Viking invasions led to the creation of Normandy.
Chapter 6: Around the first millennium’s turn, new kinds of cultural soft power arose amid shifts in social organization and structure.
Chapter 7: Though the early Crusades served papal ambition, they were later deployed against enemies more broadly, including various foes.
Chapter 8: Medieval merchants, scholars, and builders helped forge the world we know today.
Chapter 9: In the fourteenth century, the Black Death ravaged medieval populations and profoundly reshaped the Western world.
Chapter 10: Throughout the late Middle Ages, wealthy patrons supported artists, inventors, and explorers.
Chapter 11: The printing press’s invention and evolving religious dogma sparked the Protestant Reformation, which signaled the end of the medieval era in Europe.
Description
Powers and Thrones (2021) is a comprehensive history of the Middle Ages. Tracing time from the fall of the western Roman Empire to the Protestant Reformation, these blinks reveal how forces such as global networks, climate change, mass migration, pandemics, and technological innovation, as well as political leaders, the clergy, and knights, shaped the medieval world.
Who Should Listen
- History nerds fascinated by the Middle Ages
- Anyone curious about the history of pandemics
- Sociologists, archeologists, and political scientists