Features
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 544 pages
- Published by: Robert Hale & Company June 1978
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0709168470
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0709168478
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Book Dimensions:
8.8 x 5.5 x 1.5 inches
- Weighs: 1.8 pounds
Reader ReviewsI must disagree with the previous reviewer. As an avid reader of medieval literature this is the worst "history" text I've read. Far from being objective the author fills the text with judgemental opinions. She contradicts herself repeatedly. The book contains errors (Pope John the XXIII was alive when she wrote the book but she places him in the medieval period...twice.) She starts off describing how Edward I of England represented the beginning of a new positive England, then immediately describes his transgressions! Basically the book implies that nothing good ever came from the "Roman Catholic church" dismissing all its saints as "fanatics." She then goes on to describe the inquisitioners as fanactics as well. Furthermore, the only religious who escape her scathing judgement are Martin Luther and other Reformation leaders. As a Catholic I am aware of the despicable history of abuse and mistakes of the church during the late middle ages. I can even recommend a book titled "The Bad Popes" because it depicts the facts and lets the readers make their own judgement. Plaidy starts the book with an introduction villifying everything concerned with the Roman Catholic Church. If written today I am confident the book would be trashed by her peers for her obvious bias and interjecting personal opinion and judgement into what is supposed to be a historical book. I am very disappointed in this book. It is not worth the price, even if used. I could only recommend it for the most virulent anti-catholics.
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