The New Penguin Atlas of Medieval History: Revised Edition (Hist Atlas) Paperback – 30 July 1992

Strictly an amateur and not a historian but it was so easy to understand and interesting. Wish we’d had this in school!

As always with this author you get a very good grip of the bigger picture and major events, with maps supporting them. A great way to summarize and support you while studying those other text-heavy tomes in history class. And you do smile a bit more often when checking this one out than when you read the heavier stuff, so that's a nice bonus.

Wonderful illustrations in this clever and very informative book which I can go back to again and again. It brings history into perspective and makes it much more chronologically clear

When you spend your school history lessons learning lists of English kings, there is something missing. When you travel to European cities, e.g. Florence, how do you tie this together with some battle, such as Crecy, which loomed so large in our lessons. This will tell you the answer and show you how relatively unimportant our kingly struggles were in the bigger picture. And it will make you laugh, at the same time. It is my third copy, as I keep giving away my copy to friends.

So just a quick review.I bought it because it was cheap, but still i'm not happy about it. The idea is good, but the maps can simply be done much much better. It's all black and white, with different black and white stripes showing different nations, which is annoying to look at. Also, the maps are just a basic overview, so if you want precision this is not for you.If you have no idea about how the world looked in the middle ages, it's a good start, so i will not go lower than 3 stars

Love the maps, so clear to follow and work out. Only criticism is the text is a very small font. No worry as I bought the book for the maps. Plenty of maps charting change at regular intervals. Just what I was looking for to help increase my understanding of this period.

This book is a miracle of.clever concise information. After reading it l felt that I had finally been given an education. Thank you so so much mr McEvedy.

Bought to accompany several books I have on the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of Medieval Europe up to and beyond Charlemagne. It has proved really useful in understanding the exact geographical references made in those books and the changing shape of dominions within Europe during that period.