About the Author

Régine Pernoud is widely acclaimed as one of the great medievalists of our times. Among her many books are definitive works on Joan of Arc and Hildegard of Bingen, as well as The Crusaders and Those Terrible Middle Ages.

Reviews

Régine Pernoud, in the clear light of her vast knowledge as a historian, thrashes the ignorant, smashing their errors and the generally accepted ideas about the Middle Ages.
--Jean Prasteau, Le FigaroContains rich veins of information for the amateur as well as for the scholar, this book is written in a brisk and sometimes petulant style. A must for students.
--Cornelius Buckley, S.J., Author, When Jesuits Were Giants.