Ebook: The inheritance of Rome: a history of Europe from 400 to 1000
Author: Wickham Chris
- Tags: Civilization--Roman influences, European History, HISTORY--Europe--General, Politics and government, History, Electronic books, Rome -- History -- Empire 284-476, Europe -- Civilization -- Roman influences, Europe -- History -- 476-1492, Europe -- Politics and government -- 476-1492, HISTORY -- Europe -- General, Civilization -- Roman influences, Europe, Rome (Empire)
- Series: Penguin history of Europe 2
- Year: 2009
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- City: London;Europe;Rome;Rome (Empire)
- Language: English
- epub
The idea that with the decline of the Roman Empire Europe entered into some immense �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 which will transform its many 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...