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Framing the Early Middle Ages

Author : Chris Wickham
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019162263X
Total Pages : 1019 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Framing the Early Middle Ages written by Chris Wickham and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-11-30 with total page 1019 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roman empire tends to be seen as a whole whereas the early middle ages tends to be seen as a collection of regional histories, roughly corresponding to the land-areas of modern nation states. As a result, early medieval history is much more fragmented, and there have been few convincing syntheses of socio-economic change in the post-Roman world since the 1930s. In recent decades, the rise of early medieval archaeology has also transformed our source-base, but this has not been adequately integrated into analyses of documentary history in almost any country. In Framing the Early Middle Ages Chris Wickham combines documentary and archaeological evidence to create a comparative history of the period 400-800. His analysis embraces each of the regions of the late Roman and immediately post-Roman world, from Denmark to Egypt. The book concentrates on classic socio-economic themes, state finance, the wealth and identity of the aristocracy, estate management, peasant society, rural settlement, cities, and exchange. These give only a partial picture of the period, but they frame and explain other developments. Earlier syntheses have taken the development of a single region as 'typical', with divergent developments presented as exceptions. This book takes all different developments as typical, and aims to construct a synthesis based on a better understanding of difference and the reasons for it.

The Early Middle Ages

Author : James A. Corrick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781560062462
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book The Early Middle Ages written by James A. Corrick and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Early Middle Ages, the 500 years following the fall of Rome, was a violent time of invasion and war that saw the breakdown of society. Yet, this period saw important social and political changes, leading first to the civilization of the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance and then to modern western culture.

Scale and Scale Change in the Early Middle Ages

Author : Julio Escalona
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9782503532394
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (323 download)

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Book Synopsis Scale and Scale Change in the Early Middle Ages by : Julio Escalona

Download or read book Scale and Scale Change in the Early Middle Ages written by Julio Escalona and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kings, aristocrats, peasants, and the Church are among the shared features of most early medieval societies. However, these also varied dramatically in time and space. Can petty regional kings, for instance, be compared to those in charge of a whole empire? Scale is a crucial factor in modelling, explaining, and conceptualizing the past. Furthermore, many issues that historians and archaeologists treat independently can be theorized together as processes of scale decrease or increase: the appearance of complex societies, the rise and collapse of empires, changing world-systems, and globalization. While a subject of much discussion in fields such as ecology, geography, and sociology, scale is rarely theorized by archaeologists and historians. This book highlights the potential of the concepts of scale and scale change for comparing and explaining medieval socio-spatial processes. It integrates regional and temporal variations in the fragmentation of the Roman world and the emergence of medieval polities, which are often handled separately by late antique and early medieval specialists. The result of a three-year research project, the nine case studies in this volume offer fresh insights into early medieval rural society while combining their individual subjects to generate a wider explanatory framework.

Fifty Early Medieval Things

Author : Deborah Deliyannis
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501730282
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Fifty Early Medieval Things written by Deborah Deliyannis and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important book [...] is a helpful guide to thinking with things and teaching with things. Each entry challenges the reader to approach objects as historical actors that can speak to the changes and continuities of life in the late antique and early medieval world.― Early Medieval Europe Lavishly illustrated and engagingly written, Fifty Early Medieval Things demonstrates how to read objects in ways that make the distant past understandable and approachable. Fifty Early Medieval Things introduces readers to the material culture of late antique and early medieval Europe, north Africa, and western Asia. Ranging from Iran to Ireland and from Sweden to Tunisia, Deborah Deliyannis, Hendrik Dey, and Paolo Squatriti present fifty objects—artifacts, structures, and archaeological features—created between the fourth and eleventh centuries, an ostensibly "Dark Age" whose cultural richness and complexity is often underappreciated. Each thing introduces important themes in the social, political, cultural, religious, and economic history of the postclassical era. Some of the things, like a simple ard (plow) unearthed in Germany, illustrate changing cultural and technological horizons in the immediate aftermath of Rome's collapse; others, like the Arabic coin found in a Viking burial mound, indicate the interconnectedness of cultures in this period. Objects such as the Book of Kells and the palace-city of Anjar in present-day Jordan represent significant artistic and cultural achievements; more quotidian items (a bone comb, an oil lamp, a handful of chestnuts) belong to the material culture of everyday life. In their thing-by-thing descriptions, the authors connect each object to both specific local conditions and to the broader influences that shaped the first millennium AD, and also explore their use in modern scholarly interpretations, with suggestions for further reading.

The Annotated Book in the Early Middle Ages

Author : Mariken Teeuwen
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9782503569482
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (694 download)

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Download or read book The Annotated Book in the Early Middle Ages written by Mariken Teeuwen and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotations in modern books are a phenomenon that often causes disapproval: we are not supposed to draw, doodle, underline, or highlight in our books. In many medieval manuscripts, however, the pages are filled with annotations around the text and in-between the lines. In some cases, a 'white space' around the text is even laid out to contain extra text, pricked and ruled for the purpose. Just as footnotes are an approved and standard part of the modern academic book, so the flyleaves, margins, and interlinear spaces of many medieval manuscripts are an invitation to add extra text. This volume focuses on annotation in the early medieval period. In treating manuscripts as mirrors of the medieval minds who created them - reflecting their interests, their choices, their practices - the essays explore a number of key topics. Are there certain genres in which the making of annotations seems to be more appropriate or common than in others? Are there genres in which annotating is 'not done'? Are there certain monastic centres in which annotating practices flourish, and from which they spread? The volume thus investigates whether early medieval annotators used specific techniques, perhaps identifiable with their scribal communities or schools. It explores what annotators actually sought to accomplish with their annotations, and how the techniques of annotating developed over time and per region.

Language & Power in the Early Middle Ages

Author : Patrick J. Geary
Publisher : Brandeis University Press
ISBN 13 : 1611683912
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)

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Book Synopsis Language & Power in the Early Middle Ages by : Patrick J. Geary

Download or read book Language & Power in the Early Middle Ages written by Patrick J. Geary and published by Brandeis University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language and ideology in the scholarship of the late Middle Ages

The Early Middle Ages

Author : Rosamond McKitterick
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 9780198731733
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (317 download)

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Download or read book The Early Middle Ages written by Rosamond McKitterick and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2001 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Early Middle Ages (400-1000) was one of the most dynamic and crucial periods in the formation of Europe. It covers the transition from the relatively diverse world of Roman Empire in late antiquity, to the disparate world of early medieval Europe, where local differences assumed fargreater significance, but where, nonetheless, the institution of Latin Christianity lent coherence to the successor states. In this book, McKitterick and five other leading historians have collaborated closely to produce a set of thematic interpretations covering politics, society, economy, culture,religion, and Europe and the wider world. Military matters and warfare are treated within these chapters, reflecting their entrenchment in social, economic, and political stuctures. The definition of 'Europe' is ambiguous in this period, but for the most part, 'Europe' coincides with theever-expanding horizons of Latin Christendom. However, this book also looks at crucial interactions with other areas, such as Scandinavia, eastern Europe, the Islamic Middle East and North Africa, and Byzantium. Providing a coherent view of the most important elements within the period, this bookgives a sense of the complexities and excitements of six hundred years of transition.

Documentary Culture and the Laity in the Early Middle Ages

Author : Warren Brown
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110702529X
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Documentary Culture and the Laity in the Early Middle Ages written by Warren Brown and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revealing study explores how people at all social levels, whether laity or clergy, needed, used and kept documents.

East and West in the Early Middle Ages

Author : Stefan Esders
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110718715X
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book East and West in the Early Middle Ages written by Stefan Esders and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary volume re-evaluates the interconnectedness of the Merovingian world with its Mediterranean surroundings.

The Rhetoric of Free Speech in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

Author : Irene van Renswoude
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107038138
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Book Synopsis The Rhetoric of Free Speech in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages by : Irene van Renswoude

Download or read book The Rhetoric of Free Speech in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages written by Irene van Renswoude and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-26 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses the rhetoric of dissidents, outsiders and truth-tellers to challenge preconceptions about free speech and political criticism in the early Middle Ages.

A Companion to the Global Early Middle Ages

Author : Erik Hermans
Publisher : ARC Humanities Press
ISBN 13 : 9781942401759
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis A Companion to the Global Early Middle Ages by : Erik Hermans

Download or read book A Companion to the Global Early Middle Ages written by Erik Hermans and published by ARC Humanities Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This companion analyzes the different ways in which societies from Oceania to Europe and beyond were connected in the period 600-900 CE.

East Central & Eastern Europe in the Early Middle Ages

Author : Florin Curta
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book East Central & Eastern Europe in the Early Middle Ages written by Florin Curta and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies on the history and archaeology of Eastern Europe during the early Middle Ages

The Early Middle Ages

Author : Philip Daileader
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781565859142
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (591 download)

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Download or read book The Early Middle Ages written by Philip Daileader and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the seven centuries from 300 to 1000, this course examines the period of European history known as the "Dark Ages." The period is dominated by two empires, the Roman Empire and the Carolingian Empire.

State and Society in the Early Middle Ages

Author : Matthew Innes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139425587
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book State and Society in the Early Middle Ages written by Matthew Innes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-04-24 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 2000, is a pioneering study of politics and society in the early Middle Ages. Whereas it is widely believed that the source materials for early medieval Europe are too sparse to allow sustained study of the workings of social and political relationships on the ground, this book focuses on a uniquely well-documented area to investigate the basis of power. Topics covered include the foundation of monasteries, their relationship with the laity, and their role as social centres; the significance of urbanism; the control of land, the development of property rights and the organization of states; community, kinship and lordship; justice and dispute settlement; the uses of the written word; violence and the feud; and the development of political structures from the Roman empire to the high Middle Ages.

The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages

Author : Shane Bobrycki
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691255598
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages written by Shane Bobrycki and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-11-19 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance of collective behavior in early medieval Europe By the fifth and sixth centuries, the bread and circuses and triumphal processions of the Roman Empire had given way to a quieter world. And yet, as Shane Bobrycki argues, the influence and importance of the crowd did not disappear in early medieval Europe. In The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages, Bobrycki shows that although demographic change may have dispersed the urban multitudes of Greco-Roman civilization, collective behavior retained its social importance even when crowds were scarce. Most historians have seen early medieval Europe as a world without crowds. In fact, Bobrycki argues, early medieval European sources are full of crowds—although perhaps not the sort historians have trained themselves to look for. Harvests, markets, festivals, religious rites, and political assemblies were among the gatherings used to regulate resources and demonstrate legitimacy. Indeed, the refusal to assemble and other forms of “slantwise” assembly became a weapon of the powerless. Bobrycki investigates what happened when demographic realities shifted, but culture, religion, and politics remained bound by the past. The history of crowds during the five hundred years between the age of circuses and the age of crusades, Bobrycki shows, tells an important story—one of systemic and scalar change in economic and social life and of reorganization in the world of ideas and norms.

The Region of the Upper Msta River in the Early Middle Ages

Author : Inna Islanova
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004441107
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Region of the Upper Msta River in the Early Middle Ages written by Inna Islanova and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The monograph is devoted to the archaeological sites of the 5th-8th centuries AD of a Volga-Baltic watershed. In addition to the culture of the Pskov long barrows, a new group of early Slavic archaeological sites was revealed.

The Lives of the Popes in the Early Middle Ages

Author : Horace Kinder Mann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Lives of the Popes in the Early Middle Ages written by Horace Kinder Mann and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: