The Making of Europe - Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change 950-1350

From our 21st century perspective, we tend to think of the Europe of the past as a colonizer, a series of empires that conquered lands beyond their borders and forced European cultural values on other peoples. This provocative book shows that Europe in the Middle Ages was as much a product of a process of conquest and colonization as it was later a colonizer. A stimulating assessment of medieval Europe and a masterful survey of the forces that shaped the West,,,