The Great Tours: Experiencing Medieval Europe

Bartlett is perhaps a little too fascinated by the inside of churches and by medieval walls, but his tour of 12 European cities will well-preserved medieval parts will have you wanting to visit nearly all of them--or perhaps move to Malta. Bartlett's narrative is well written and he is a good

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speaker. This is a more recent Teaching Company course, and the gee-whiz computer graphics, such as the professor standing on a map of the city he is talking about, are mostly quite effective. This is not a professor standing behind a lectern with a few pictures shown now and then; the depictions of city life are very well integrated and compelling. Definitely recommended. I used this as part of my daughter's home schooling.

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