Early Medieval Europe

Pocketbok. St. Martin's Press. Second Edition uppl. 1999. 533 sidor.

Mycket gott skick. "A large and intricate body of fundamental research on the narrative sources, deployed with clarity and expertise for which many readers will be extremely grateful." - Times Higher Education Supplement.

This new edition of Roger Collin's classic textbook history of early medieval Europe is fully updated and revised to take account of the latest scholarship. The author provides provides a synoptic, yet detailed, account of the centuries during which Europe change from being an abstract geographical expression into a new, culturally coherent, if politically divided, entity.

It examines how the social, economic and cultural structures of Antiquity were replace by their medieval equivalents, and it also seeks to define of European context by looking at those external forces - such as the nomadic confederacies of central Asia and the Islamic empire of the Arabs - which helped to shape it through conflict.

The centuries studied here are vital once for the understanding of the formation of many aspects of the political and intellectual heritage of modern Europe. For better or worse, ideas and institutions formed in is period continue to influence those of the present.

The major themes of history of this times - the fall of the Roman Empire, the0 establishment of the dominance Christianity in Europe and parallel rise of the rival world religion on Islam, together with in the West under Carolingians - are all large-scale ones that have fascinated and perplexed subsequent generations.

Not surprisingly, these centuries have attracted att attention of many historians, above all in the last two decades. This book seeks to provide a synthesis of the latest research, while aspiring to make its own distinctive contribution to the subjects discussed, both in detail and in general interpretations. Substantial references are intended to provide guidance for further reeding and research.