Larry Gonick's series "The Cartoon History of the Universe" is a unique fusion of world history and the middle of comic books, a work of serious research and a masterpiece of popular literature. Gonick's clever illustrations offer significant information with a deceptively light tone, teaching us about the people and events that have shaped our world.

This eagerly awaited new volume covers the Middle Ages globally, including the multicultural Middle East, West Africa and trans-Saharan trade, Central Asia and the Byzantine Empire, the European Dark Ages and the Crusades, the Mongol conquests, the Black Death, the Ottoman Empire, the Italian Renaissance and the rise of Spain, up to Columbus's departure for the New World.

Gonick offers a historical overview that is simultaneously multicultural, humanistic, skeptical, and humorous.

• Pages: 320
• Year of Publication: 0108
• Dimensions: 19.3x19.3cm