Reviews for After The Fall

The average rating for After The Fall based on 2 reviews is 1.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-12-28 00:00:00 Charles Copeland 3.5 stars I am being a little mean with this rating - the book IS good and it really isn't much out there in English on this subject. However, quite a few of the articles (especially in the first two parts) are tantalizingly short, ending far too soon and leaving the reader wanting more. But on the whole this is a good book on interesting times (in this book the Early Middle Ages means 500-1000, circa) and areas I know too little about. It's a collection of essays arranged in three parts: Economic and social structures, The rise of the state, and Conversion - with articles about everything from "Salt trade and warfare" to "Archaeology and the beginning of the Polish state", and "Creating Khazar identity through coins" (the last one, by Roman K. Kovalev was one of my favourite texts in this book - even though I am not all that into coins). Generally speaking I found the last part (Conversion) the most interesting - though the others were not uninteresting, I hasten to add. It could be due to the subject matter, or it could be because many of the articles there were longer and therefore more satisfying to read.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-08-05 00:00:00 Kerry Moonce Essays vary in quality widely, I found I loved one of them, but most of them I found super pointless Personally, I would have cut a number of them from the book Some of these are now obsolete, lacking information that was not known at the time or known well