Customer Review: Mr. Asch is obviously a thorough and competent specialist of the period. It seems to me that he is writing essentially from a German perspective, which is not a bad thing, but his thorough expositions, chapter by chapter, lack the additional dimension one would expect to find in a book describing... more info
Customer Review: A wave of recent studies shows that the nobles, small in absolute numbers, were dominant much longer than we suspected, controlling most of the land and all of the politics on the Continent for centuries. In this line, and pursuant to this work, i) although the later sixteenth and seventeenth... more info