Framing the Early Middle Ages Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800

Name: Framing the Early Middle Ages Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800
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ISBN: 9780199212965

ISBN-10: 0199212961

ISBN-13: 9780199212965

Edition: 2006

Authors: Chris Wickham

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The Roman empire tends to be seen as a whole whereas the early middle ages tends to be seen as a collection of regional histories, roughly corresponding to the land-areas of modern nation states. As a result, early medieval history is much more fragmented, and there have been few convincing syntheses of socio-economic change in the post-Roman world since the 1930s. In recent decades, the rise of early medieval archaeology has also transformed our source-base, but this has not been adequately integrated into analyses of documentary history in almost any country. In Framing the Early Middle Ages Chris Wickham aims at integrating documentary and archaeological evidence together, and also,…

Book details

List price: $77.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/8/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 1024
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.21" long x 2.20" tall
Weight: 3.278
Language: English



List of maps


Abbreviations


Notes on terminology



Introduction



States



Geography and politics



The form of the state



Aristocratic power-structures



Aristocracies



Managing the land



Political breakdown and state-building in the North



Peasantries



Peasants and local societies: case studies



Rural settlement and village societies



Peasant society and its problems



Networks



Cities



Systems of exchange



General conclusions


Bibliography



Primary sources



Secondary sources


Index