Framing the early Middle Ages :
Wickham, Chris, 1950-
Framing the early Middle Ages : Europe and the Mediterranean 400-800 / Chris Wickham. - 1st ed - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005. - xxviii, 990 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [832]-943) and index.
States -- Geography and politics -- The form of the state -- Aristocratic power-structures -- Aristocracies -- Managing the land -- Political breakdown and state-building in the North -- Peasantries -- Peasants and local societies: case studies -- Rural settlement and village societies -- Peasant society and its problems -- Networks -- Cities -- Systems of exchange -- General conclusions.
"In Framing the early middle ages Chris Wickham links documentary and archaeological evidence together, and creates a comparative history of the period 400-800. He sets out thematic analysis of each of the regions of the latest Roman and immediately post-Roman world, from Denmark to Egypt. The book concentrates on classic socio-economic themes: states and their funding, the wealth and identity of the aristocracy, estate management, peasant society, rural settlement, cities, and exchange. These are discussed region by region, in a way not attempted before. Wickham argues that, without this, the broader development of Europe and the Mediterranean cannot be properly understood."--BOOK JACKET.
019926449X (hbk.) 9780199264490 (hbk.) 9780199212965 (pbk.) 0199212961 (pbk.)
2006295831
GBA528601 bnb
013169796 Uk
Middle Ages.
Civilization, Medieval.
Europe--History--392-814.
Mediterranean Region--History.
Mediterranean Region--Civilization.
D121 / .W53 2005
940.12
Framing the early Middle Ages : Europe and the Mediterranean 400-800 / Chris Wickham. - 1st ed - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005. - xxviii, 990 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [832]-943) and index.
States -- Geography and politics -- The form of the state -- Aristocratic power-structures -- Aristocracies -- Managing the land -- Political breakdown and state-building in the North -- Peasantries -- Peasants and local societies: case studies -- Rural settlement and village societies -- Peasant society and its problems -- Networks -- Cities -- Systems of exchange -- General conclusions.
"In Framing the early middle ages Chris Wickham links documentary and archaeological evidence together, and creates a comparative history of the period 400-800. He sets out thematic analysis of each of the regions of the latest Roman and immediately post-Roman world, from Denmark to Egypt. The book concentrates on classic socio-economic themes: states and their funding, the wealth and identity of the aristocracy, estate management, peasant society, rural settlement, cities, and exchange. These are discussed region by region, in a way not attempted before. Wickham argues that, without this, the broader development of Europe and the Mediterranean cannot be properly understood."--BOOK JACKET.
019926449X (hbk.) 9780199264490 (hbk.) 9780199212965 (pbk.) 0199212961 (pbk.)
2006295831
GBA528601 bnb
013169796 Uk
Middle Ages.
Civilization, Medieval.
Europe--History--392-814.
Mediterranean Region--History.
Mediterranean Region--Civilization.
D121 / .W53 2005
940.12