Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800
In the most ambitious and ground-breaking survey of the early middle ages ever written, Chris Wickham moves away from the fragmentary tendency to view the history of the period as a collection of regional histories, roughly corresponding to the land-areas of modern nation states. Instead he provides a comparative history of the years 400-800 systematically analysing each of the regions of the early middle ages, from Denmark to Egypt. In doing so he creates a framework for early medieval social and economic history in Europe that is both innovative and authoritative.
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Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800
In the most ambitious and ground-breaking survey of the early middle ages ever written, Chris Wickham moves away from the fragmentary tendency to view the history of the period as a collection of regional histories, roughly corresponding to the land-areas of modern nation states. Instead he provides a comparative history of the years 400-800 systematically analysing each of the regions of the early middle ages, from Denmark to Egypt. In doing so he creates a framework for early medieval social and economic history in Europe that is both innovative and authoritative.
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Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800

Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800

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

Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800

by Chris Wickham

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In the most ambitious and ground-breaking survey of the early middle ages ever written, Chris Wickham moves away from the fragmentary tendency to view the history of the period as a collection of regional histories, roughly corresponding to the land-areas of modern nation states. Instead he provides a comparative history of the years 400-800 systematically analysing each of the regions of the early middle ages, from Denmark to Egypt. In doing so he creates a framework for early medieval social and economic history in Europe that is both innovative and authoritative.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780191532610
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Publication date: 09/22/2005
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Chris Wickham received his DPhil from Oxford in 1975. He has taught at the University of Birmingham since then and is currently Professor of Medieval History at the University of Oxford. He has been editor of Past and Present since 1995.

Table of Contents


List of maps     x
Abbreviations     xi
Notes on terminology     xiv
Introduction     1
States
Geography and politics     17
The form of the state     56
Aristocratic power-structures
Aristocracies     153
Managing the land     259
Political breakdown and state-building in the North     303
Peasantries
Peasants and local societies: case studies     383
Rural settlement and village societies     442
Peasant society and its problems     519
Networks
Cities     591
Systems of exchange     693
General conclusions     825
Bibliography     832
Primary sources     832
Secondary sources     845
Index     945
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