Wickham offers both a new conception of Europe’s medieval period and a provocative revision of exactly how and why the Middle Ages matter. He provides illuminating vignettes that underscore how shifting social, economic, and political circumstances affected individual lives and international events.
Tracking the entire sweep of the Middle Ages across Europe, Wickham focuses on important changes century by century, including such pivotal crises and moments as the fall of the western Roman Empire, Charlemagne’s reforms, the feudal revolution, the challenge of heresy, the destruction of the Byzantine Empire, the rebuilding of late medieval states, and the appalling devastation of the Black Death. Tracking the entire sweep of the Middle Ages across Europe, Wickham focuses on important changes century by century, including such pivotal crises and moments.
Your Plus plan is 7.95 a month after 30 day trial. You will get an email reminder before your trial ends. Yet distinguished historian Chris Wickham has taken up the challenge in this landmark book, and he succeeds in producing the most riveting account of medieval Europe in a generation. Access a growing selection of included Audible Originals, audiobooks, and podcasts. It is a broad history of the period between the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the transition to the Middle Ages, often called Late Antiquity. The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and hugely transformative period-one not easily chronicled within the scope of a few hundred pages. Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean 400800 is a 2005 history book by English historian Christopher Wickham at the University of Oxford. A spirited and thought-provoking history of the vast changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle Ages
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