The inheritance of Rome : a history of Europe from 400 to 1000 / Chris Wickham.
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London :
Allen Lane,
2009.
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| Series: | Penguin history of Europe ;
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- Pt. I. The Roman Empire and its break up, 400-550
- 2. The weight of empire
- 3. Culture and belief in the Christian Roman world
- 4. Crisis and continuity, 400-550
- Pt. II. The post-Roman west, 550-750
- 5. Merovingian Gaul and Germany, 500-751
- 6. The west Mediterranean kingdoms : Spain and Italy, 550-750
- 7. Kings without states : Britain and Ireland, 400-800
- 8. Post-Roman attitudes : culture, belief and political etiquette, 550-750
- 9. Wealth, exchange and peasant society
- 10. The power of the visual : material culture and display from imperial Rome to the Carolingians
- Pt. III. The empires of the east, 550-1000
- 11. Byzantine survival, 550-850
- 12. The crystallization of Arab political power, 630-750
- 13. Byzantine revival, 850-1000
- 14. From 'Abbasid Baghdad to Umayyad Córdoba, 750-1000
- 15. The state and the economy : eastern Mediterranean exchange networks, 600-1000
- Pt. IV. The Carolingian and post-Carolingian west, 750-1000
- 16. The Carolingian century, 751-887
- 17. Intellectuals and politics
- 18. The tenth-century successor states
- 19. 'Carolingian' England, 800-1000
- 20. Outer Europe
- 21. Aristocrats between the Carolingian and the 'feudal' worlds
- 22. The caging of the peasantry, 800-1000
- 23. Conclusion : trends in European history, 400-1000.
