I give Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages four stars out of five.
It is a cliché much repeated by historians that the medieval world was made up of three groups of people: those who prayed, those who fought, and those who worked.
-- Chapter 10, MERCHANTS, p. 354
Cruelty and inhumanity were the handmaidens of imperial expansion.
-- Chapter 15, NAVIGATORS, Christopher Columbus, p. 535
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