The Roman Empire divided, 400-700
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The Roman Empire divided, 400-700
Longman, an imprint of Pearson Education, 2001
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  Tokyo
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  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
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  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
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  United Kingdom
  Germany
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Note
Bibliography: p. 296-309
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Unmatched in its chronological sweep, and with an impressive and unusual geographical range, this ambitious history offers a new and vital interpretation of the post-Roman world. The decline and fall of the Roman Empire has transfixed historians for centuries. This important new account looks at what happened after the power of the once mighty empire was swept away. Smaller states founded by Slavs, Arabs, Germanic peoples and others moved in to fill the void and laid the foundations for the later histories of western Europe, the Balkans, the Middle East and north Africa. John Moorhead looks at how these fundamental changes were influenced by other social, economic and political developments taking place at the same time. Using a fascinating array of evidence he weaves the numerous threads into a convincing and lucid narrative and shows how, by the end of the eighth century, the civilization of the ancient world had been replaced by a series of units which had very little in common with each other.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations Foreword Introduction Chapter 1 The EmpireFrontiers BarbariansNon-RomansNames and Clothing
Roman Society
Religion
Chapter 2
The western Mediterranean till the mid-sixth century
Italy
Africa
Spain
Chapter 3
From Gaul to France
Newcomers and the old establishment
Clovis
The sixth century
Franks and indigenes
Centre and peripheries
Control of resources
The north
Changes
Chapter 4
From Britain to England
Roman Britain
Newcomers
Indigenes and newcomers
Newcomers and indigenes
Frankish influence
Irish influence
Mediterranean influence
Monarchy
Old and new
Chapter 5
The western Mediterranean post-Justinian
Byzantium and the West
Africa
Italy
Spain
Chapter 6
South of the Danube
The fifth century
The loss of Noricum
Justinian
Slaves and Avars
The seventh century
Thessaloniki
The Empire fights back
Bulgars
Chapter 7
The East to 661
A city and its empire
The Arabs
Muhammand
Persians and Jews
Preparation for expansion
Expansion begins
The initial impact of the Arabs
Chapter 8
The East from 661
The new regime
Expansion to the west
Buildings
Iconoclasm
The balance of Power
Co-existence and apocalypse
Structural change
Chapter 9
Systems great and small
The Pirenne thesis I
World Systems
The Pirenne thesis II
The Mediterranean
The west looks back
Retrospect and prospect
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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