Chris Wickham "Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800"
Oxford University Press | 2005-11-10 | ISBN: 019926449X | 1018 pages | PDF | 5,7 MB
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…