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Europe After Rome - A New Cultural History 500-1000 (Paperback)
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Europe After Rome - A New Cultural History 500-1000 (Paperback)
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This is the first single-author study in over fifty years to offer
an integrated appraisal of the early Middle Ages as a dynamic and
formative period in European history. Written in an attractive and
accessible style, it makes extensive use of original sources to
introduce early medieval men and women at all levels of society
from slave to emperor, and allows them to speak to the reader in
their own words. It overturns traditional narratives and instead
offers an entirely fresh approach to the centuries from c.500 to
c.1000. Rejecting any notion of a dominant, uniform early medieval
culture, it argues that the fundamental characteristic of the early
middle ages is diversity of experience. To explain how the men and
women who lived in this period ordered their world in cultural,
social, and political terms, it employs an innovative methodology
combining cultural history, regional studies, and gender history.
Ranging comparatively from Ireland to Hungary and from Scotland and
Scandinavia to Spain and Italy, the analysis highlights three
themes: regional variation, power, and the legacy of Rome. The
book's eight chapters examine the following subjects: Speaking and
Writing; Living and Dying; Friends and Relations; Men and Women;
Labour and Lordship; Getting and Giving; Kingship and Christianity;
Rome and the Peoples of Europe. Collectively, they establish the
complex cultural realities which distinguished Europe in the period
between the end of the central institutions of the western Roman
empire in the fifth century and the emergence of a Rome-centred
papal monarchy from the late eleventh century onwards. In the
context of debates about the social, religious and cultural meaning
of 'Europe' in the early twenty-first century, this books seeks the
origins of European cultural pluralism and diversity in the early
Middle Ages.
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