Medieval People by Prestwich, Michael -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page About the Author Other Titles of Interest Dedication Contents Introduction: The Medieval World 1. An Age of Empires

Charlemagne Hrotsvit of Gandersheim King Olav I of Norway Fulk Nerra Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna) Emma of Normandy Odo of Bayeux Rodrigo Díaz (El Cid) Matilda of Tuscany Pope Urban II Guibert de Nogent Anna Komnene

2. An Age of Confidence

Abbot Suger Geoffrey of Monmouth Godric of Finchale Héloïse Al-Idrisi Hildegard of Bingen Thomas Becket Usāma ibn Munqidh Frederick Barbarossa Eleanor of Aquitaine Saladin (Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Ayyūb) William Marshal Pope Innocent III

3. An Age of Maturity

Chinggis Khan (Genghis Khan) Simon de Montfort Dominic de Guzmán Robert of Wetherby Frederick II Matthew Paris King Håkon IV of Norway King Louis IX of France Alexander Nevsky Thomas Aquinas Villard de Honnecourt Benedetto Zaccaria James of St George Jacques de Molay Marco Polo

4. An Age of Plague

Dante Alighieri William Lene James Douglas Giotto di Bondone Richard of Wallingford Jean de Lamouilly Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) John Crabbe Guillaume Cale Guy de Chauliac Charles IV of Bohemia King Pedro IV of Aragon Coluccio Salutati Catherine of Siena (Catherine Benincasa) John Hawkwood John of Gaunt Geoffrey Chaucer Jean Froissart

5. An Age of Transition

Temür (Tamerlane) Boucicaut (Jean II le Maingre) Jan Žižka Joan of Arc Filippo Brunelleschi Taccola (Mariano di Jacopo) Clara Sanuto Margaret of Anjou Johannes Gutenberg Charles the Bold Piero della Francesca

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