Framing the early Middle Ages : Europe and the Mediterranean 400-800 / Chris Wickham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wickham, Chris, 1950- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Medieval.

Europe--History--392-814.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (3468 p.)

Other Title:

Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Roman empire tends to be seen as a whole whereas the early middle ages tends to be seen as a collection of regional histories, roughly corresponding to the land-areas of modern nation states. As a result, early medieval history is much more fragmented, and there have been few convincing syntheses of socio-economic change in the post-Roman world since the 1930's. In recent decades, the rise of early medieval archaeology has also transformed our source-base, but this has not been adequately integrated into analyses of documentary history in almost any country. In Framing the Early Middle Ages

Contents:

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Acknowledgements; List of maps; Abbreviations; Notes on terminology; 1. Introduction; Part I. States; 2. Geography and politics; 3. The form of the state; Part II. Aristocratic power-structures; 4. Aristocracies; 5. Managing the land; 6. Political breakdown and state-building in the North; Part III. Peasantries; 7. Peasants and local societies: case studies; 8. Rural settlement and village societies; 9. Peasant society and its problems; Part IV. Networks; 10. Cities; 11. Systems of exchange; 12. General conclusions; Bibliography

1. Primary sources 2. Secondary sources; Index; Footnotes

Notes:

Originally published: 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

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ISBN:

9786610756667

9780191532610

0191532614

9781429469975

1429469978

9781280756665

1280756667

9780191698934

0191698938

9780191622632

019162263X

9780191514197

0191514195

OCLC:

778339565

Publisher Number:

2027/heb06206 hdl