How long does it take to read The History of the Medieval World?
The History of the Medieval World by Susan Wise Bauer takes about 13 hours 41 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 13 hours 41 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2010. 746 pages, about 205,150 words.
28 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 22 hours 48 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 13 hours 41 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 33 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
From the schism between Rome and Constantinople to the rise of the T'ang Dynasty, from the birth of Muhammad to the crowning of Charlemagne, this erudite book tells the fascinating, often violent story of kings, generals, and the peoples they ruled. In her earlier work, The History of the Ancient World, Susan Wise Bauer wrote of the rise of kingship based on might. But in the years between the fourth and the twelfth centuries, rulers had to find new justification for their power, and they turned to divine truth or grace to justify political and military action--right thus replaces might as the engine of empire. Not just Christianity and Islam but the religions of the Persians and the Germans, and even Buddhism, are pressed into the service of the state. This phenomenon--stretching from the Americas all the way to Japan--changes religion, but it also changes the state.--From publisher description.
Subjects: Medieval Civilization, Middle Ages, Civilization, medieval
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