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The inheritance of Rome : a history of Europe from 400 to 1000

Title

The inheritance of Rome : a history of Europe from 400 to 1000 / Chris Wickham.

Author

Wickham, Chris, 1950-

Publication

New York : Viking, 2009.

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xi, 650 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

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 critical in the formulation of European identity. Far from being a "middle" period between more significant epochs, this age has much to tell us in its own right about the progress of culture and the development of political thought. Wickham focuses on a world still profoundly shaped by Rome, which encompassed peoples ranging from Goths, Franks, and Vandals to Arabs, Anglo-Saxons, and Vikings. Digging deep into each culture, Wickham constructs a vivid portrait of a vast and varied world stretching from Ireland to Constantinople, the Baltic to the Mediterranean--the crucible in which Europe would ultimately be created.--From publisher description.

Series Statement

The Penguin history of Europe ; 2

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Penguin history of Europe ; 2.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The Roman Empire and its breakup, 400-550. The weight of empire ; Culture and belief in the Christian Roman world ; Crisis and continuity, 400-550 -- 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 culture and display from Imperial Rome to the Carolingians -- 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 Córdoba, 750-1000 ; The state and the economy : Eastern Mediterranean exchange networks, 600-1000 -- 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 ; Conclusion : trends in European history, 400-1000.

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