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| Title: |
The Inheritance Of Rome |
| Subtitle: |
A History Of Europe From 400 To 1000 |
| Author: |
WICKHAM CHRIS |
| Dept: |
European Studies |
| Publisher: |
Allen Lane |
| Binding: |
Hardcover |
| ISBN/BCODE: |
0713994290 9780713994292 |
| Date: |
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| exGST: |
$63.59 AU |
| incGST: |
$69.95 AU |
| Status: |
Out of stock at: 31 Aug 2010 19:00 |
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The idea that with the decline of the Roman Empire Europe entered into a long 'dark age' has long been viewed as inadequate by many historians. How could a world still so profoundly shaped by Rome and which encompassed such remarkable societies as the Byzantine, Carolingian and Ottonian empires, be anything other than central to the development of European history? How could a world of so many peoples, whether expanding, moving or stable, of Goths, Franks, Vandals, Byzantines, Arabs, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings – whose genetic and linguistic inheritors we all are – not lie at the heart of how we understand ourselves? The Inheritance of Rome is a work of remarkable scope and ambition. Drawing on a wealth of new material, it is a book that will transform readers' ideas about the crucible in which Europe would in the end be created. From the collapse of the Roman imperial system to the establishment of the new European dynastic states, this book's most striking achievement is to make sense of a time where many generations of Europeans experience invasion and turbulence, but also long periods of continuity, creativity and achievement. |
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