The inheritance of Rome : a history of Europe from 400 to 1000 / Chris Wickham.
Historian Chris Wickham defies conventional views of the "Dark Ages" in European history with a work of rigorous yet accessible scholarship. Drawing on a wealth of new material and featuring a thoughtful synthesis of historical and archaeological approaches, Wickham argues that these centuries were...
| Uniform Title: | Penguin history of Europe ;
2. |
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Viking,
2009.
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
| Series: | Penguin history of Europe ;
2. |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 650 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- I. THE ROMAN EMPIRE AND ITS BREAKUP, 400-550. The weight of empire
- Culture and belief in the Charistian Roman world
- Crisis and continuity, 400-550
- II. THE POST-ROMAN WEST, 550-750. Merovingian Gaul and Germany, 500-751
- The West Mediterranean kingdoms: Spain and Italy, 550-750
- Kings without states: Britain and Ireland, 400-800
- Post-Roman attitudes: culture, belief and political etiquette, 550-750
- Wealth, exchange and peasant society
- The power of the visual: material cultuer and display from Imperial Rome to the Carolingians
- III. THE EMPIRES OF THE EAST, 550-1000.Byzantine survival, 550-850
- The crystallization of Arab political power, 630-750
- Byzantine revival, 850-1000
- From 'Abbasid Baghdad to Umayyad Cordoba, 750-1000
- The state and the economy: Eastern Mediterranean exchange networks, 600-1000
- IV. THE CAROLINGIAN AND POST-CAROLINGIAN WEST, 750-1000. The Carolingian century, 751-887
- Intellectuals and politics
- The 10th-century successor states
- 'Carolingian' England, 800-1000
- Outer Europe
- Aristocrats between the Carolingian and the 'Feudal' worlds
- The caging of the peasantry, 800-1000
- Trends in European history, 400-1000.