谢缅诺夫著的“中世纪史”的中译本是我国近年出版的适合于高等学校参考用的关于世界中世纪史的书籍之一。作者是苏联的研究世界中世纪史的权威。他在这本书里不仅概括地叙述了中世纪时代世界各国人民为摆脱封建压迫而进行的斗争的历史,而且综合了苏联历史学界关于中世纪史研究的最近的成果。作者在这本书里首先根据劳动人民、物质财富生产者是历史的主人的原理进行中世纪史的研究。他正确地指出:中世纪史是封建生产方式占统治时期的历史。封建制度的确立,繁荣,及其最后的衰落和解体是中世纪史的基本的段落,而封建生产方式是中世纪社会的全部 The Chinese translation of “Medieval History” by Xiemenov is one of the books on the medieval history of the world published in recent years in China, which is suitable for the reference of colleges and universities. The author is the authority of the Soviet Union to study the medieval history of the world. In this book, he not only summarizes the history of the struggle of the peoples of the world in the Middle Ages in an effort to get rid of feudal oppression, but also synthesizes the recent achievements of the Soviet historians in the study of the history of the Middle Ages. In this book, the author first studies medieval history based on the principle that the working people and material wealth producers are the masters of history. He rightly pointed out: the history of the Middle Ages is the history of the feudal mode of production accounted for the rule period. The establishment and prosperity of the feudal system and its final decline and dissolution are the basic passages in the history of the Middle Ages. The feudal mode of production is all of medieval society