Early medieval Europe 300-1050 : the birth of western society
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Early medieval Europe 300-1050 : the birth of western society
Pearson Education, c2012
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  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
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Early Medieval Europe 300-1050 is a broad-brush survey of Western Europe from the period of the late Roman Empire (4th-5th centuries) through the period of the dissolution of that empire, the emergence of the barbarian kingdoms which succeeded it, and their consolidation under the Carolingian and Ottonian rulers on the Continent and the West Saxon and Danish kings in England, to the early 11th century, with the nascent kingdoms of France, Germany, and England.
The book focuses on the big historical questions which the period raises, the sources for it and the ways in which historians have worked with them, and the competing approaches to the questions and interpretations which historians have developed.
Table of Contents
Contents
Part I: Introduction
1. Why study this period?
Part II: The End of the Roman Empire in the West
2. From Roman Empire to Barbarian Kingdoms: Cataclysm or Transition?
3. The Making of Peoples: Invasions or Identity-Change?
Part III: The Rise of European Kingship
4. The Rise of European States
5. The Barbarian Roots of Kingship
6. Kings and Emperors
7. The Christian Shaping of Kingship
8. The Mechanisms of Power
Part IV: The Economic Foundation
9. The Nature of Exchange: Trade, Plunder and Gift Giving
10. Cultivating the Land: The Basis of European Society
11. The Origins of European Towns and Town Life
Part V: Christianity and the Role of the Church
12. The Processes of Conversion to Christianity
13. Popes and Bishops: The Most Powerful Men in Europe
14. Monks and Monastries: Power in this Life or after it?
Part VI: Conclusion
15. The Birth of Western Society?
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