Introduction to early medieval Western Europe, 300-900
Subtitle: the sword, the plough and the book
By: Matthew Innes.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 552
ISBN-13: 9780415215060; 9780415215077; 9780203644911
Subjects: Middle Ages; Europe, Western -- History -- To 1500; Europe -- History -- 392-814
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Rome, the barbarians, and the fate of western Europe; title: Pt. I. The transformation of the Roman west.  A new Roman order: state, church and society in the late empire ; Barbarians, the Roman frontier and the crisis of the western empire ; The fifth century west and the 'fall of Rome'; title: Pt. II. The end of the ancient Mediterranean.  The western Mediterranean in the age of 'reconquest' ; Arabs, Avars and amphoras: causes and consequences of imperial collapse; title: Pt. III. Kingdoms and communities in the post-Roman west.  Hispania and Italy: contrasting communities ; Gaul and Germany: the Merovingian world ; Britain and Ireland: kings and peoples; title: Pt. IV. The Carolingian moment: western Europe in the eighth and ninth centuries.  'The invincible race of the Franks': conquest, Christianisation and Carolingian kingship ; 'Peace unity and concord among the Christian people': Carolingian order and its architects ; Paradoxes of empire: western Europe in the ninth century.; title: Epilogue: The sword, the plough and the book.