This book is designed to provide 5th or 6th grade level students with a solid overview of old world history.

Much of our modern understanding of medieval society and cultures comes through the stories people told and the way they told them. Storytelling was, for this p

This clear and comprehensive text covers the Middle Ages from the classical era to the late medieval period. Distinguished historian John Riddle provides a coge

"During the Merovingian centuries when most kings were weak, and brutal men fought over power and booty, ordinary folk, as well as many who were not so ordinary

First published in 1931, this book covers the broad period of time between the Christian Roman Empire instituted in the fourth century and the period of the Ren