Açıklama
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. 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. This book integrates documentary and archaeological evidence together, and provides a 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. The book argues that only a complex comparative analysis can act as the basis for a wider synthesis. The book takes all different developments as typical, and constructs a synthesis based on a better understanding of difference and the reasons for it.
Baskılar ve ISBN
- 2005
- Oxford University Press · İngilizce
ISBN 9780191622632 - 2005
- Ebsco Publishing · İngilizce
ISBN 9780191532610 - 2005
- Oxford University Press · İngilizce
ISBN 9781280756665 - 2005
- OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS · Root · 990 sayfa
ISBN 019926449X
Künye
- Yazar
- Chris Wickham
- İlk yayın
- 2005
- Yayınevleri
- Ebsco Publishing, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, Oxford University Press
- Sayfa (ortalama)
- 1018
- Baskı sayısı
- 7
- Kaynak
- Open Library