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<p><P>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. <P>In <b>Framing the Early Middle Ages </b>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

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Author

Chris Wickham; NetLibrary, Inc

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780191514197

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Anthropology, Humanities

Rating

4.31 / 5 (94 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14