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Framing the Early Middle Ages - Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800 (Paperback, New Ed)
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Framing the Early Middle Ages - Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800 (Paperback, New Ed)
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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 aims at integrating
documentary and archaeological evidence together, and also, above
all, at creating a comparative history of the period 400-800, by
means of systematic comparative analyses of each of the regions of
the latest Roman and immediately post-Roman world, from Denmark to
Egypt (only the Slav areas are left out). 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 are only a partial
picture of the period, but they are intended as a framing for other
developments, without which those other developments cannot be
properly understood.
Wickham argues that only a complex comparative analysis can act as
the basis for a wider synthesis. Whilst 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 forit. This is the most ambitious and original survey of
the period ever written.
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