The inheritance of Rome : a history of Europe from 400 to 1000 / Chris Wickham.
2009
940.12 W637i 2009
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Title
The inheritance of Rome : a history of Europe from 400 to 1000 / Chris Wickham.
Author
Edition
1st American ed.
ISBN
9780670020980
0670020982
0670020982
Imprint
New York : Viking, 2009.
Language
English
Description
xi, 650 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Call Number
940.12 W637i 2009
System Control No.
(OCoLC)276819725
(OCoLC)276819725
(OCoLC)276819725
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
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.
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.
Series
Penguin history of Europe ; 2.
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