The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change 950-1350 by Robert Bartlett (Penguin, 1993)
Medieval Europe can feel like a distant world, with little relevance to the, Robert Bartlett demonstrates that little could be further from the truth. It was in the Middle Ages that Europe was created as a cultural entity. And it was in these years that many of the traditional characteristics of the continent first came to the fore, including widespread obedience to the Latin (Catholic) church in Rome, and ideals of chivalry and courtly culture.
