Screen LibraryThe inheritance of Rome : illuminating the Dark Ages, 400-1000 /
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| Publication Dates: | ©2009 |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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The Penguin history of Europe ;
II |
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| Carrier Form: | xi, 650 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 565-622) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780143117421 (paperback) : 0143117424 (paperback) |
| Index Number: | CB351 |
| CLC: | K503 |
| Call Number: | K503/W637-2 |
| Contents: | The Roman Empire and its breakup, 400-550. The weight of empire ; Culture and belief in the Christian Roman world ; Crisis and continuity, 400-550 -- The post-Roman West, 550-750. Merovingian Gaul and Germany, 500-751 ; The West Mediterranean kingdoms : Spain and Italy, 550-750 ; Kings without states : Britain and Ireland, 400-800 ; Post-Roman attitudes : culture, belief, and political etiquette, 550-750 ; Wealth, exchange, and peasant society ; The power of the visual : material culture and display from Imperial Rome to the Carolingians -- The empires of the East, 550-1000. Byzantine survival, 550-850 ; The crystallization of Arab political power, 630-750 ; Byzantine revival, 850-1000 ; From "Abbasid Baghdad to Umayyad Cordoba, 750-1000 ; The state and the economy : Eastern Mediterranean exchange networks, 600-1000 -- The Carolingian and post-Carolingian West, 750-1000. The Carolingian century, 751-887 ; Intellectuals and politics ; The 10th-century successor states ; "Carolingian" England, 800-1000 ; Outer Europe ; Aristocrats between the Carolingian and the "feudal" worlds ; The caging of the peasantry, 800-1000 ; Conclusion : trends in European history, 400-1000. |