<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
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 560
- Series
- History of Europe
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xxvi
Problem-solving emperors....Pages 1-15
The age of Constantine....Pages 16-30
Frontier wars and civil wars, 350β395....Pages 31-46
The battle of Adrianople and the sack of Rome....Pages 47-60
A divided city: the Christian Church, 300β460....Pages 61-79
The disappearance of an army....Pages 80-99
The new kingdoms....Pages 100-115
The twilight of the West, 518β568?....Pages 116-134
Constantinople, Persia and the Arabs....Pages 135-152
Decadent and do-nothing kings....Pages 153-172
The re-creating of Britain....Pages 173-195
The Lombard achievement, c. 540β712....Pages 196-217
The sundering of East and West....Pages 218-233
Monks and missionaries....Pages 234-261
Towards a new western Empire, 714β800....Pages 262-290
The new Constantine....Pages 291-308
Frontier societies: Christian Spain, 711β1037....Pages 309-332
βThe dissension of kingsβ....Pages 333-363
βThe desolation of the pagansβ....Pages 364-389
The Ottonian Age....Pages 390-422
Back Matter....Pages 423-533
β¦ Subjects
European History; Modern History; World History, Global and Transnational History; Ancient History
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