Ebook: Civitates, regna und Eliten: Die regna des Frühmittelalters als Teile eines ‚unsichtbaren Römischen Reiches‘

Researchers broadly agree that the European Early Middle Ages can be grasped as emerging from Roman antiquity. The essays in this volume examine the role of social and communicative realities in this history. They use as a methodical instrument the concept of an “invisible Roman Empire,” which is understood as a continuous principle of Roman and post-Roman society.