A history of north-western europe / Robin Briggs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Briggs, Robin, Author.

Series:

Blackwell history of the world http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/959f1191-3c16-1058-3010-7252cb0df2cb

Blackwell history of the world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Europe, Western--History.

Europe, Western.

Europe, Western--Civilization.

Physical Description:

xii, 383 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, NJ : Wiley Blackwell, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2025.

Summary:

"Few human creations have ever marked memory so strongly as the Roman Empire. Its relics, above all its astonishingly durable buildings and other structures, are still physically present in some quantity across much of Western Europe. Classical culture and the Latin language have proved still more enduring and influential throughout the West until very recent times. Any history of this region across the longue dureÌe can hardly start anywhere else, unless it is to delve back into the long ages before written records begin. It may therefore seem rather perverse that this book should take the fall of the Western Empire as its starting point, rather than some such earlier moment as Julius Caesar's conquest of Gaul. This choice certainly does not help with chronological precision, because only the most literal-minded would now think that the deposition in 476 of the last Emperor in the west, Romulus Augustulus, amounted to a dramatic change. In reality the Empire disintegrated very slowly over many decades, by such imperceptible stages that many among its elites hardly seem to have noticed. Historical periodization now recognizes this through the ingenious notion of Late Antiquity, a period stretching roughly from the so-called imperial crisis of the third century AD to the onset of the Carolingian age some four centuries later. The use of this era as a springboard turns out to have great advantages, because it allows us to probe the relationship between the Empire and the 'barbarian' kingdoms that succeeded it, and to understand many paradoxical or surprising features of this transition"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

FROM ROME TO THE CAROLINGIANS

RULERS, FEUDAL LORDS, AND POPES

SOCIAL CHANGE, PERSECUTION, AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

RULERS, POLITICS AND WAR DOWN TO THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY

A CHANGING WORLD; THE PLAGUE, THE RENAISSANCE, AND THE NEW DISCOVERIES

THE REFORMATION AND THE AGE OF RELIGIOUS WAR

POLITICAL CONFLICT AND CIVIL WAR: BRITAIN AND FRANCE TO

THE WORLD OF IDEAS AND THE NEW SCIENCE

BRITAIN, THE NETHERLANDS, AND THE FRANCE OF LOUIS XIV

EIGHTEENTH CENTURY DEVELOPMENTS AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT

THE ROAD THROUGH REVOLUTION TO NAPOLEON

FROM THE HOLY ALLIANCE TO THE REVOLIUTIONS OF

INDUSTRIAL AND MEDICAL REVOLUTIONS AND RELIGIOUS CHANGE

NATIONALISM, DEMOCRACY, AND INSTABILITY

CONCLUSION.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version Briggs, Robin History of north-western europe

ISBN:

9780631214496

0631214496

OCLC:

1528767297