Framing the Early Middle Ages
europe and the mediterranean, 400-800
- Paperback
1024 pages
- Release Date
30 November 2006
Summary
Framing the Early Middle Ages: A New Synthesis
The Roman empire is often viewed as a unified entity, while the early Middle Ages is often perceived as a collection of fragmented regional histories, closely tied to the territories of modern nation-states. This has resulted in a disjointed understanding of early medieval history, with few comprehensive syntheses of socio-economic changes in the post-Roman world since the 1930s.
The rise of early medieval archaeology in recent …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199212965 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0199212961 |
| Author: | Chris Wickham |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 1024 |
| Release Date: | 30 November 2006 |
| Weight: | 1.49kg |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 157mm x 56mm |
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It raises the bar for all future discussion of large-scale historical change, and not just for this period, but it also shows us how we may occasionally scramble over it.'TLSCombining close documentary analysis with the latest archaeological research, it is extraordinarily ambitious and wide-ranging, and one of the great scholarly achievements of the year.‘The Daily Telegraph`The reader will not only learn an immense amount but constantly and actively engage both with the material and the arguments of this tremendously rich book.‘BBC History
About The Author
Chris Wickham
Chris Wickham received his DPhil from Oxford in 1975. He was Professor of Early Medieval History at the University of Birmingham until his appointment as Chichele Professor of Early Medieval History at the University of Oxford in 2005. He has been editor of Past and Present since 1995.
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