Europe after Rome : a new cultural history 500-1000 / Julia M.H. Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Julia M. H.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle Ages.

Europe--History--476-1492.

Europe.

Europe--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (399 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The 500 years following the collapse of the Roman Empire is still popularly perceived as Europe's 'Dark Ages', marked by barbarism and uniformity. Julia Smith's masterly book sweeps away this view, and instead illuminates a time of great vitality and cultural diversity. Through a combination of cultural history, regional studies, and gender history, she shows how men and women at all levels of society ordered their world, and she allows them to speak to the reader directly in their. own words. This is the first single-author study in over fifty years to offer an integrated appraisal of all asp

Contents:

Contents; List of Figures; Abbreviations; Note on Conventions; Introduction; FUNDAMENTALS; AFFINITIES; RESOURCES; IDEOLOGIES; Epilogue; Notes; Further Reading; Chronology; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [298]-343) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-280-75924-0

0-19-151427-6

1-4294-3093-1

OCLC:

476259264