Early Medieval Europe, 300-1000,

✍ Scribed by Roger Collins

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 241
• Series: Palgrave History of Europe
• Edition: 2nd
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book offers a fascinating account of Europe from the fall of the Roman Empire through to the end of the tenth century. In its wide-ranging coverage of the period, it takes into account social, economic and political changes as well as the important cultural changes, including the rise of Islam and the recreation of a western empire under the Cardingians.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
......Page 2
Chronology
......Page 5
Preface
......Page 11
Introduction
......Page 13
1 Problem-solving emperors
......Page 15
2 The age of Constantine
......Page 23
3 Frontier wars and civil wars, 350-395
......Page 30
4 The Battle of Adrianople and the Sack of Rome
......Page 37
5 A divided city: the Christian Church 400-460
......Page 44
6 The disappearance of an army
......Page 52
7 The new kingdoms
......Page 62
8 The Twilight of the West, 518-568
......Page 69
9 Constantinople, Persia and the Arabs
......Page 78
10 Decadent and do-nothing kings
......Page 87
11 The remaking of Britain
......Page 96
12 The Lombard achievement, c. 540-712
......Page 106
13 The sundering of East and West
......Page 117
14 Monks and Missionaries
......Page 124
15 Towards a new western Empire, 714-800
......Page 137
16 The new Constantine
......Page 151
17 "The dissension of kings"
......Page 158
18 "The desolation of the pagans"
......Page 171
19 Towards the millennium
......Page 183
Notes
......Page 193
Bibliography
......Page 227
Index
......Page 233