Tapestry of Grace - Middle Ages - Important People

Tsar Vladimir I of Kiev (958-1015)

Emily is working through Tapestry of Grace's Year 2 curriculum at the moment.  We started the year with Ancient History, following Beautiful Feet's literature based history curriculum for high school and finished it before Christmas.  I thought we would continue with their Middle Ages high school curriculum but found that the latest edition uses a "spine" which does not have a Christian worldview.  I wrote a negative review at Christian Book Distributors.  I wish someone had done that before me, as it would have saved us some money.  Thankfully I still had my Tapestry of Grace curriculum, which I had to hurry and set up at the last minute.  I am glad we switched, even though it is a lot more work.  I love the Middle Ages, church history of that period is so rich and interesting.  Preparing for this week I learned about Vladimir I, King of Kiev, who introduced Christianity to Russia.  We will be going through a list of important people each week, and he was a new one for me.  Although Tapestry of Grace has reading assignments which cover most of the people on the weekly lists, I realize this time around that one has to look closely at the list because not all the people mentioned are included in the reading assignments.  You need to look up the ones who are not and do a little research.  They are all fascinating, made great contributions to the kingdom, and are worth studying.