From the Brink of the Apocalypse

The later Middle Ages was a period of unparalleled chaos and misery -in the form of war, famine, plague, and death. At times it must have seemed like the end of the world was truly at hand. And yet, as John Aberth reveals in this lively work, late medieval Europeans´ cultural assumptions uniquely equipped them to face up postively to the huge problems that they faced.