Introduction to Early Medieval Western Europe, 300-900
[Book]
: Sword, The Plough And The Book
/ Matthew Innes
Reprinted
London ;New York
: Routledge
, 2008.
xvi, 552 p.
: , ill., maps
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Introduction: Rome, the barbarians, and the fate of western Europe - Pt. I. The transformation of the Roman west. A new Roman order: state, church and society in the late empire ; Barbarians, the Roman frontier and the crisis of the western empire ; The fifth century west and the 'fall of Rome' - Pt. II. The end of the ancient Mediterranean. The western Mediterranean in the age of 'reconquest' ; Arabs, Avars and amphoras: causes and consequences of imperial collapse - Pt. III. Kingdoms and communities in the post-Roman west. Hispania and Italy: contrasting communities ; Gaul and Germany: the Merovingian world ; Britain and Ireland: kings and peoples - Pt. IV. The Carolingian moment: western Europe in the eighth and ninth centuries. 'The invincible race of the Franks': conquest, Christianisation and Carolingian kingship ; 'Peace unity and concord among the Christian people': Carolingian order and its architects ; Paradoxes of empire: western Europe in the ninth century. - Epilogue: The sword, the plough and the book