<DIV>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 I
Early Medieval Europe 300β1000
β Scribed by Roger Collins (auth.)
- Publisher
- Macmillan Education UK
- Year
- 1991
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 479
- Series
- Macmillan History of Europe
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xxix
Problem-solving emperors....Pages 1-15
The age of Constantine....Pages 16-29
Frontier wars and civil wars, 350β395....Pages 30-44
The battle of Adrianople and the sack of Rome....Pages 45-57
A divided city: the Christian Church, 300β460....Pages 58-74
The disappearance of an army....Pages 75-93
The new kingdoms....Pages 94-108
The twilight of the West, 518β568....Pages 109-126
Constantinople, Persia and the Arabs....Pages 127-143
Decadent and do-nothing kings....Pages 144-161
The remaking of Britain....Pages 162-182
The Lombard achievement, c. 540β712....Pages 183-203
The sundering of East and West....Pages 204-218
Monks and missionaries....Pages 219-244
Towards a new western Empire, 714β800....Pages 245-271
The new Constantine....Pages 272-286
βThe dissension of kingsβ....Pages 287-312
βThe desolation of the pagansβ....Pages 313-336
Towards the millennium....Pages 337-355
Back Matter....Pages 356-453
β¦ Subjects
History of Medieval Europe; European History
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