Early Medieval Europe: Europe in History

Early Medieval Europe: Europe in History, PART TWO, opens amid the wreckage left by Rome's collapse, where figures such as Galla Placidia, Clovis, and Pope Gregory the Great tried to stitch a shattered world back together when the old rules no longer held. I begin in post-Roman Italy, a place where barbarian kings-many of them Arian Christians-argued theology as fiercely as they contested territory, where Roman institutions refused to die quietly, and where debates about the Trinity were an...