Who can tell you about the Middle Ages better than Jacques Le Goff? The famous French historian, one of the main experts on the Middle Ages (and perhaps the largest today), has written an excellent book that will be of interest to both children and adults. It is structured as a dialogue between the author-scientist and an inquisitive teenager. The Middle Ages are one of the most attractive and vibrant eras in European history. Le Goff shows her two different faces: beautiful, noble, poetic on the one hand and unsightly, in some ways even ugly, on the other. In a lively, unobtrusive, fascinating manner, he talks about fearless knights and the beautiful ladies they served, about tournaments, armor, the structure and purpose of castles, about cathedrals and the importance of religion for the people of that time, about the classes of medieval society, about kings, saints and fairies, the first universities, fairs, music, holidays, folk beliefs and much more. The book is being published in Russian for the first time.