Europe after Rome
A New Cultural History 500-1000
$76.23
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
28 June 2007
Summary
This is the first single-author study in over fifty years to offer an integrated appraisal of the early Middle Ages as a dynamic and formative period in European history. Written in an attractive and accessible style, it makes extensive use of original sources to introduce early medieval men and women at all levels of society from slave to emperor, and allows them to speak to the reader in their own words.
It overturns traditional narratives and instead offers an entirely fresh approa…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780192892638 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0192892630 |
| Author: | Julia M.H. Smith |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 28 June 2007 |
| Weight: | 574g |
| Dimensions: | 233mm x 155mm x 20mm |
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Critics Review
`Review from previous edition This book is a masterpiece of condensed exposition. It is also a break-through - a truly New Cultural History - in the quiet determination of the author to approach very old themes from angles refreshingly different from those from which they have usually been approached … It is, above all, the first complete account of the early middle ages as a civilisation in its own right. It catches the living texture of western Europe,from Rome to the Hebrides, for a half millennium of its history. It is truly the study of a civilization in its entirity … Reading Europe After Rome I was constantly reminded of another synthesis ofgenius which now lies at the root of the modern study of the high middle ages - that is, Richard Southern’s The Making of the Middle Ages … It was a ‘Portrait of an Age’. Julia Smith has done the same for the half millennium which preceded Southern’s Middle Ages.‘Professor Peter Brown, Princeton University
About The Author
Julia M.H. Smith
Julia Smith is Professor in Medieval History, University of Glasgow.
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