The Age of Faith (The Story of Civilization Vol. 4)

NY: Simon and Schuster, 1950. Hardcover_cloth. Near Fine/Good. 6.63"x9.25" 1196 indexed pages. BCE/BOMC. Red cloth. Gilt letters on front and spine. List of 46 Illustrations in frontal section plus endpaper maps of Byznatine Empire Under Justinian c. A.D. 565; The Baghdad Caliphate C.A.D. 750; Europe c.A.D. 1190. Top edge painted red. DJ design by Joseph B. Del Valle. Authors' photo by Bill Ray. Cloth sewn binding. Preface by Will Durant dated 1949. Tiny square blind-stamped on bottom right corner of back board. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped, & unmarked. No price on DJ. DJ has chips and tears to edges. Will require additional postage for weight. A History of Medieval Civilization-Christian, Islamic & Judaic-from Constantine to Dante: AD 325-1300
The Age of Faith surveys the medieval achievements & modern significance of Christian, Islamic & Judaic life & culture. Like the other volumes in The Story of Civilization, this is a self-contained work, which at the same time fits into a comprehensive history. It includes the dramatic stories of Augustine, Hypatia, Justinian, Mohammed, Harun al-Rashid, Charlemagne, William the Conqueror, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Richard the Lion-Hearted, Saladin, Maimonides, St Francis, Thomas Aquinas, Roger Bacon etc, all in the perspective of integrated history. The greatest love stories in literature—of Héloise & Abélard, of Dante & Beatrice—are here retold with enthralling scholarship.