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| List of Maps | |
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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Roman Empire and its Break-up, 400-550 | |
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| The Weight of Empire | |
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| Culture and Belief in the Christian Roman World | |
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| Crisis and Continuity, 400-550 | |
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| The Post-Roman West, 550-750 | |
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| Merovingian Gaul and Germany, 500-751 | |
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| The West Mediterranean Kingdoms: Spain and Italy, 550-750 | |
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| Kings without States: Britain and Ireland, 400-800 | |
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| Post-Roman Attitudes: Culture, Belief and Political Etiquette, 550-750 | |
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| Wealth, Exchange and Peasant Society | |
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| The Power of the Visual: Material Culture and Display from Imperial Rome to the Carolingians | |
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| The Empires of the East, 550-1000 | |
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| Byzantine Survival, 550-850 | |
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| The Crystallization of Arab Political Power, 630-750 | |
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| Byzantine Revival, 850-1000 | |
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| From 'Abbasid Baghdad to Umayyad C�rdoba, 750-1000 | |
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| The State and the Economy: Eastern Mediterranean Exchange Networks, 600-1000 | |
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| The Carolingian and Post-Carolingian West, 750-1000 | |
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| The Carolingian Century, 751-887 | |
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| Intellectuals and Politics | |
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| The Tenth-century Successor States | |
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| 'Carolingian' England, 800-1000 | |
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| Outer Europe | |
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| Aristocrats between the Carolingian and the 'Feudal' Worlds | |
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| The Caging of the Peasantry, 8oo-1000 | |
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| Conclusion: Trends in European History, 400-1000 | |
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| Notes and Bibliographic Guides | |
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| Index of Names and Places | |