Europe after Rome: A New Cultural History, 500-1000

Europe after Rome: A New Cultural History 500-1000 is the first single-author study in more than fifty years to offer an integrated appraisal of the early Middle Ages as a dynamic and formative period in European history. Written in an attractive and accessible style, the book makes extensive use of original sources in order to introduce early medieval men and women at all levels of society—from slave to emperor—and allows them to speak to students in their own words. It overturns tradition...