Dictionary of World Biography, Volume II: The Middle Ages

This is the second instalment in a projected ten‐volume series covering the lives of important people from the ancient world through to the twentieth century. This new series is a revision and reordering, with new entries added, of Salem Press’s 30‐volume series, Great Lives from History. The contents of the original series have been integrated and rearranged from a geographical perspective into a chronological one, combining biographies of important people from all over the world into individual titles, each covering an era.

The Middle Ages, volume two of the dictionary, brings together 259 essays from the Great Lives from History...