Middle ages

Description:

Features nineteen full or excerpted documents written during the Middle Ages. Entries include excerpts from Augustine's Confessions and Dante's Inferno; Marco Polo's description of his travels in China; The Thousand and one nights; and Japan's "Seventeen-article constitution," written by Prince Shotoku Taishi. Each entry is accompanied by introductory and historical information to place the document in context as well as a document-specific glassary.

subjects: Biography,  History,  Juvenile literature,  Medieval Civilization,  Middle Ages,  Sources,  World history,  Histoire universelle,  Biographies,  Histoire,  Civilisation médiévale,  Moyen Âge,  Civilization, Medieval,  Reference works,  World history: c 500 CE to c 1500,  World history: c 500 to C 1500,  Middle Ages, 500-1500,  Historical - General,  Biography / Autobiography,  Juvenile Nonfiction,  Children: Young Adult (Gr. 10-12),  Medieval,  History - General,  Reference,  Social Sciences,  Biography & Autobiography - General

Times: Middle Ages, 500-1500