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The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages, 400–1000
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Author
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Chris Wickham.
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Publisher
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Viking
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Format
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hardcover
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Product Dimensions
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9.25
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6.25
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1.7
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ISBN
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9780670020980
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Pages/Publication Date
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651/2009
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Daedalus Item Code
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21515
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Description
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The author of Framing the Middle Ages (which won the Wolfson Prize, the Deutscher Memorial Prize, and the James Henry Breasted Prize of the American Historical Association) here defies the conventional view of the so-called "Dark Ages" in European history. Chris Wickham argues that, far from being a middle period between more significant epochs, these centuries were critical in the formulation of European identity, the progress of culture, and the development of political thought. "Oxford historian Wickham constructs a magisterial narrative of the political, economic, cultural and religious fabrics that constituted the crazy quilt of Europe's Dark Ages.... Wickham challenges standard views of the early Middle Ages as barbarous and bereft of political and cultural structure, and recreates a stunning portrait of the breakup of the Roman Empire and its consequences for Europe.... Wickham's achievement contributes richly to our picture of this often narrowly understood period."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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