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Millennium

The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom

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Millennium

Von: Tom Holland
Gesprochen von: Mark Meadows, Tom Holland
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 Bestselling historian and broadcaster Tom Holland gives a thrilling panoramic account of the birth of the new Western Europe in the year 1000

'An exhilarating sweep across European history either side of the year 1000; riveting' ALLAN MASSIE, SPECTATOR

'I relished the blood and thunder narrative - the work of a great storyteller at his best' DOMINIC SANDBROOK, EVENING STANDARD

'A splendid, highly coloured canvas' NORMAN STONE, GUARDIAN

In AD 900, few would have guessed that the splintering kingdoms of Europe were candidates for future greatness. Hemmed in by implacable enemies and an ocean, there were many who feared that they were nearing the time when the Antichrist would appear, heralding the world's end.

Instead there emerged a new civilisation. It was the age of Otto the Great and William the Conqueror, of Viking sea-kings, of hermits, monks and serfs. It witnessed the spread of castles, the invention of knighthood, and the founding of the papal monarchy. It was a momentous achievement: for this was nothing less than the founding of the modern West.©2008 Tom Holland Europa Welt

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An exhilarating sweep across European history either side of the year 1000; riveting (Allan Massie)
I relished the blood and thunder narrative - the work of a great storyteller at his best (Dominic Sandbrook)
Millennium is a superb, fascinating and erudite medieval banquet of slaughter, sanctity and sex, filled with emperors, whores and monks
Fast and lively... another blockbuster (Jenny Diski)
Millennium ranges far in both time and space yet always returns to its central theme: the right ordering of Christendom... it is a narrative history in the grand manner, written with panache and confidence... A marvellous, enthralling read
A mighty narrative of kings and popes, battles and massacres... A tremendously good read
Holland excels at narration, never jogging when he can gallop... His highly individual road map to the hitherto 'dark ages' is written with forceful - and convincing - panache (Christina Hardyment)
Enjoyable and exuberantly argued... storytelling on a magisterial scale
Tom Holland is a gifted narrator who covers the field with panache and a rich fund of adjectives (Johnathan Sumption)
Holland has written an original and elegant book (Andrew Lynch)
Holland's book . . . is big in every sense; and at its heart is a big idea that some may well deem heretical, others - myself included - profoundly imaginative . . . Holland's brilliantly written account of the Canossa incident, and its far-reaching consequences, is typical of the eloquence and historical imagination of the entire book . . . A remarkable book that prompts many reflections on our own day . . . Millennium is both a vastly entertaining read . . . as well as deeply intelligent: it constitutes a major contribution to some of the most crucial issues of our time (John Cornell)
Holland has a mightily readable style, in which powerful Latinate rhetoric jostles with cheery colloquialism . . . Far more than the stories of Greeks and Romans, this is your history (James Delingpole)
Holland turns his brilliant narrative spotlight on the so-called 'dark ages' ... Global in reach, this book sweeps thrillingly over the troubled centuries that saw the triumph of Byzantium, the ascent of Islam - and the lingering disaster of the Crusades (Boyd Tonkin)
It is perfectly right for Holland to claim a great deal for the eleventh century, of which his book is a splendid, highly coloured canvas (Norman Stone)
At last, a book that sheds much-needed light on those 1,000 years between Roman Britain and the Norman conquest that we call the dark ages (Sue Arnold)
Holland tells a cracking tale, vividly bringing this neglected era of monks, popes, knights and serfs back to life (David Sinclair)
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Tom Holland is a charming fellow and intelligent at that. It’s quite entertaining to listen to his own rendition of his books. Whereas that ham actor Mark Meadows’ reading is close to unbearable, That I actually made it through the book, is probably due to the fact that I was ill and slept much of the time.

But what made me sleepy? Rather than my cold it is the fact that, especially in this volume, Holland spares his readers the inconvenience of too much structural thought that could’ve enabled the reader to make sense of this endless stream of who with whom against whom. (An 1 1/2 hour interview with Professor Stefan Weinfurter on the same events, gave me more than the whole book.)
Much rarer than in Pax where are the passages where he really succeeded in sharing (show me) new light on the living conditions of another culture. But maybe I was I’ve just had enough of this style of making history, entertaining. There’s something perverse in the notion anyway, if you care to contemplate what these events actually meant for ordinary people.

Too many stories, not enough history.

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