"For five decades, Medieval Europe: A Short History has been the best-selling text for courses on the history of the Middle Ages. This acclaimed book has long been applauded for both its scholarship and its engaging narrative, and Oxford University Press is pleased to continue this tradition of excellence with a new, twelfth edition that features a new coauthor, Sandy Bardsley. The new edition offers increased coverage of race and ethnicity, more incorporation of archaeological data, and an overall streamlining of the text"--