- Colorful primary source artwork, tapestries, artifacts, and manuscripts illuminate the Middle Ages
- Large two-page battle maps support text
- High-interest approach and low reading level makes curriculum content accessible to struggling readers
- Correlates to NCSS social studies standards, including civilizations around the world
- In Their Own Words primary source quotes enhance text
- Did You Know? scroll boxes provide readers with fun facts
- Sources of further information
- Glossary, Index