The Great Cities of the Middle Ages: Or the Landmarks of European Civilization (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Great Cities of the Middle Ages: Or the Landmarks of European Civilization From the perusal of the following pages, the reader will perceive that I have restricted myself, with two exceptions, to European cities, and that, even thus, I have been compelled to omit many cities, upon which it would have been easy to have said a great deal by no means devoid of interest. Still, I preferred trying to do moderate justice (as far as my limits would permit) to the cities of Europe, to attempting what must have proved a meagre outline, had I attempted to include even half the cities of the East in my plan, still less so, had I sought to take in the results of mediæval enterprise in lands yet less known. I believe that the cities I have selected are, on the whole, the best calculated to give a fair general notion of the character of the Middle Ages, and of the people who lived in those ages. I have endeavoured to take some prominent biography, or leading event connected with each city, hoping thereby to relieve the tedium of mere description, without fettering myself with the trammels, or aiming at the pretensions of a regular history. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.