The Atlas of Medieval Man Author:Colin Platt "The Atlas of Medieval Man" provides an overview of the world that spans five centuries and an astonishing period of human progress. The sequel to "The Atlas of Early Man", it begins in the year 1000 and ends in 1500 - soon after Columbus is know to have reached the New World. Each chapter covers a century and cha... more »rts the concurrent developments - in politics, religion, warfare, exploration, technology and chiefly, material culture - that occurred in the known parts of the world during those hundred years« less