After the Black Death: A Social History of Early Modern Europe (Interdisciplinary Studies in History)

This book is a very enjoyable and colorful description of life from the 1400's to the 1600's. However, if your only knowledge of European history was this book, you would think that history ended in the 1600s with masses of starving naked people lining the roads of burnt villages, while distant cities were filled with no one but idle nobility with their servants and some street venders. Seems a bit too much class warfare too me. During the period of the 1300's to the 1600's there were tremdendous developments in the sciences, technologies, and humanities. This book discusses little of those. Still, it is an excellent description of the effects of changes in warfare on common people. It description on the motivations and benefits of all the societal changes I found to be better described by other books.

School assignment. Hard to read/get in to,

Must read

I bought it for a class. Despite not finishing the whole book (I read most of it), It wasn't a dreadful read. History just isn't my thing.

Perfect condition. Beautifully written and full of necessary information based on the 15th-18th century way of life and class structures.

as expected

Probably the worst book I ever had to read for school!

Had to read this for a history class. Couldn't keep my eyes open while reading it. Very dry and boring.

Good thanks