The Lombards: The History and Legacy of the Germanic Group that Dominated Italy after the Fall of Rome

*Includes pictures
*Includes a bibliography for further reading
The birth of Europe as people know it today was hardly an easy and effortless process. The continent was reshaped by centuries of continuous wars, raids, and the falls and rises of empires, and the most turbulent of these events happened at the beginning of the Middle Ages, from the 3rd-7th centuries CE. This was the time when the old slave society gave way to the feudal system that marked the latter Middle Ages, and it was also ...