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03768cam a2200469 a 4500 001 59B33E9A82AD11DE820800E8A7D7520A 003 SILO 005 20190815012642 008 090409s2009 nyuabf b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2009015169 020 $a 0670020982 020 $a 9780670020980 035 $a (OCoLC)276819725 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d YDXCP $d C#P $d BWX $d BUR $d IG# $d MOF $d ZJI $d SGB $d BUP $d SILO 050 00 $a CB351 $b .W49 2009 100 1 $a Wickham, Chris, $d 1950- 245 1 $a The inheritance of Rome : $b a history of Europe from 400 to 1000 / $c Chris Wickham. 250 $a 1st American ed. 260 $a New York : $b Viking, $c 2009. 300 $a xi, 650 p., [16] p. of plates : $b ill., maps ; $c 24 cm. 440 1 $a The Penguin history of Europe ; $v 2 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. 565-622) and index. 520 $a Historian Chris Wickham defies conventional views of the "Dark Ages" in European history with a work of rigorous yet accessible scholarship. Drawing on a wealth of new material and featuring a thoughtful synthesis of historical and archaeological approaches, Wickham argues that these centuries were critical in the formulation of European identity. Far from being a "middle" period between more significant epochs, this age has much to tell us in its own right about the progress of culture and the development of political thought. Wickham focuses on a world still profoundly shaped by Rome, which encompassed peoples ranging from Goths, Franks, and Vandals to Arabs, Anglo-Saxons, and Vikings. Digging deep into each culture, Wickham constructs a vivid portrait of a vast and varied world stretching from Ireland to Constantinople, the Baltic to the Mediterranean--the crucible in which Europe would ultimately be created.--From publisher description. 505 0 $a I. THE ROMAN EMPIRE AND ITS BREAKUP, 400-550. The weight of empire -- Culture and belief in the Charistian Roman world -- Crisis and continuity, 400-550 -- II. 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 cultuer and display from Imperial Rome to the Carolingians -- III. 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 -- IV. 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 -- Trends in European history, 400-1000. 650 0 $a Civilization, Medieval. 650 0 $a Middle Ages. 651 0 $a Rome $x Influence. $x Influence. 941 $a 12 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240717023917.0 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240710013148.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20181107043912.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006050954.0 952 $l D8PD522 $d 20160407015732.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20151001033818.0 952 $l PNAX964 $d 20100108080152.0 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20100108073753.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20100120073657.0 952 $l AXPF626 $d 20100120073657.0 952 $l PTAX572 $d 20100120073657.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20100201083435.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=59B33E9A82AD11DE820800E8A7D7520A 994 $a 02 $b BUPInitiate Another SILO Locator Search