From: monaghan@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (N.O. Monaghan)
Newsgroups: soc.history
Subject: Re: european history 400-800
Date: 21 Jan 93 13:47:26 GMT
Organization: Glasgow University Computing Science Dept.

poll@patty.gud.siemens.co.at (Nikolaus Pollak) writes:
>Does anyone know books in german about the period 400-800 in europe.

I am afraid that I do not have details of books in german, but for those
interested, I am posting details of some works in English.

Here are a number of works covering the period 400 to 800 in European
history. They arrange from fairly general histories to some more
specialised studies, although I have removed those which are possibly
too specialised for a general list.

Note: This list is taken from my personal 'list of books' and as such it
will be probably be found that a number of the works on this list are out
of date or otherwise objectionable. Nor is the coverage a balanced
'bibliography' - simply those books which I have personally used.
A number of errors in accents will probably have taken place in
transferring this information from a Mac. The lines are > 80 characters
in many cases as I have kept all the details of a work to a single line
in order to ease editing.

(List follows signature)

Nils.
 
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General Histories:
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ed Tanner, Previte-Orton & Brooke: The Cambridge Mediaeval History (Cambridge, 8 vols, 1911-36)

Methuen's History of Europe
	M. Deanesly: Europe 476-911 (1956)

Longman's Introductory History of Europe
	RHC Davis: A History of Medieval Europe from Constantine to Saint Louis (Longman, 1970)

M. Keen: The Pelican History of Medieval Europe (Pelican, 1969)
Martin Scott: Medieval Europe (London, 1964)


The Later Roman Empire & Early Mediaeval Europe:
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ed Mortimer Chambers: The Fall of Rome (European Problems Series)
Glanville Downey: The Late Roman Empire (New York, 1976)
Arther Ferrill: The Fall of the Roman Empire. The Military Explanation (Thames & Hudson, London)
AHM Jones: The Later Roman Empire AD 284-602 (1964, 2 vols)
H.St.L.B. Moss : The Birth of the Middle Ages 395-814
Lucien Musset: The Germanic Invasions. The Making of Europe AD 400-600 (London, 1975)
Justine Davis Randers-Pehrson: Barbarians and Romans. The Birth Struggle of Europe AD 400-700 (London, 1983)
Malcolm Todd: Everyday Life of the Barbarians. Goths, Franks and Vandals (London, 1972)
JM Wallace-Hadrill: Early Medieval History (Oxford, 1975)
JM Wallace-Hadrill: Early Germanic Kingship in England and on the Continent (OUP, 1980)

Byzantium:
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A. Bridge: Theodora. Portrait in a Byzantine Landscape (London, 1978)
AN Stratos: Byzantium in the Seventh Century vol II  634-641
AN Stratos: Byzantium in the Seventh Century vol IV  668-685
Percy Neville Ure: Justinian and his Age


Dark Age Warfare - General (500-1066)
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Hans Delbru"ck: History of the Art of War within the Framework of Political History (tr WJ Renfroe, Greenwood Press, Westport, USA, 4 vols)
	Vol II The Germans (1980)
Ian Heath: Armies of the Dark Ages 600-1066 (2nd ed, 1979)

The Merovingians
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Bernard S. Bachrach: Merovingian Military Organization 481-751 (Mineapolis, USA, 1972)
Paul Fouracre: Merovingian History and Merovingian Historiography > (1990) P&P, 127

The Carolingians
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Donald Bullough: The Age of Charlemagne (2nd ed, London, 1973)
DA Bullough: Europae Pater. Charlemagne and his achievement in the light of recent scholarship > (1970) EHR LXXXV
H. Fichtenau: The Carolingian Empire (rpd, Toronto, 1978)
David Nicolle: The Age of Charlemagne (Osprey Men-at-Arms seies No 150, London, 1984)
Walter Ullmann: The Carolingian Renaissance and the Idea of Kingship (London, 1969)


Frankish Sources:
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Einhard and Notker the Stammerer. Two Lives of Charlemagne: tr Lewis Thorpe (penguin, 1969)
Gregory of Tours. The History of the Franks: tr L. Thorpe (Penguin, 1974)

The Origins of Feudalism:
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Lynn White: Medieval Technology and Social Change (Oxford, 1962)
RH Hitton & PH Sawyer: Technical Determinism - the Stirrup and the Plough > (1963) P&P 24
BS Bachrach: Charles Martel, Mounted Shock Combat, the Stirrup and Feudalism > (1970) Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History VII p.49-75
BS Bachrach: Military Organization in Auitaine under the Early Carolingians > (1974) Speculum XLIV p.1-33