The Medieval Reader Author:Norman F. Cantor The only book of its kind. This is a fascinating, illustrated collection of almost 100 first-hand accounts of the period known as the Middle Ages, Roughly from the 4th to the 16th centuries. Revealing the medieval world in all its astonishing diversity, the selections reflect the culture of the people who lived during the period, and the contr... more »ibutions they made to their world and our own.« less