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Chris Wickham - Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800 - 9780199212965 - V9780199212965
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Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800

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Description for Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800 Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 1024 pages, 13 maps. BIC Classification: 1D; 1FB; 3D; 3F; HBG; HBJD; HBLA; HBLC; HBTB; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 57. Weight in Grams: 1516.
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, but this has not been adequately integrated into analyses of documentary history in almost any country. In Framing the Early Middle Ages Chris Wickham ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
990
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Weight
1547g
Number of Pages
1024
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199212965
SKU
V9780199212965
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99-2

About Chris Wickham
Chris Wickham received his DPhil from Oxford in 1975. He was Professor of Early Medieval History at the University of Birmingham until his appointment as Chichele Professor of Early Medieval History at the University of Oxford in 2005. He has been editor of Past and Present since 1995.

Reviews for Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800
a tremendous achievement, demonstrating mastery over half a dozen fields of scholarship.
David Abulafia, THES
Wickham's work is groundbreaking ... Some of his conclusions may and should be debated, but they rest on an array of evidence and on a series of complex atguments that further discussions should not ignore.
Walter Pohl, Speculum

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