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Author:

Wickham, Chris, 1950-

Title:

The Inheritance of Rome : illuminating the Dark Ages, 400-1000 / Chris Wickham.

Publisher:

Penguin Books,

Copyright Date:

2010, c2009

Description:

xi, 651 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Rome--Influence.--Influence.
Europe--Roman influences.--Roman influences.
Civilization, Medieval.
Middle Ages.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 C�ordoba, 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 tenth-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.

Series:

The Penguin history of Europe ; 2

ISBN:

0143117424 (pbk.)
9780143117421 (pbk.) :

OCLC:

(OCoLC)468975249

Locations:

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

URAX314 -- Clarke University - Nicholas J. Schrup Library (Dubuque)

SCPC074 -- Hudson Public Library (Hudson)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)