The rebirth of urbanism in Carolingian Europe is examined in this text. Drawing upon new archaeological evidence from England and the Mediterranean, Richard Hodges looks at the development of towns from Roman antiquity to the age of Charlemagne.
Towns and trade in the age of Charlemagne
The rebirth of urbanism in Carolingian Europe is examined in this text. Drawing upon new archaeological evidence from England and the Mediterranean, Richard Hodges looks at the development of towns from Roman antiquity to the age of Charlemagne.
The rebirth of urbanism in Carolingian Europe is examined in this text. Drawing upon new archaeological evidence from England and the Mediterranean, Richard Hodges looks at the development of towns from Roman antiquity to the age of Charlemagne.
In the dying days of the eighth century, the Vikings erupted onto the international stage with brutal raids and slaughter. The medieval Norsemen may be best remembered as monk murderers and village pillagers, but this is far from the whole story. Throughout the Middle Ages, long…
A trip to the furthest edgelands of the Viking world via the drama of the Old Norse sagas - from the Arctic Circle to Constantinople, north America to Kievan Rus.
In the dying days of the eighth century, the Vikings erupted onto the international stage with brutal raids and slaughter. The medieval Norsemen may be best remembered as monk murderers and village pillagers, but this is far from the whole story. Throughout the Middle Ages, long…
"Aeschylus' Persians is not only the first surviving Greek drama. It is also the only tragedy to take for its subject historical rather than mythical events; the repulse of the army of Xerxes at Salamis in 480 B.C." "Thomas Harrison here provides both a more satisfying literary …
An annotated translation of the principal narrative source written from a perspective East of the Rhine for the period in which the Carolingian Empire gave way to a number of successor empires, including the one that would become Germany. An indispensible resource for those stud…
"Here is a fresh, provocative look at how a recognizable Europe came into being in the first millennium AD. With sharp analytic insight, Peter Heather explores the dynamics of migration and social and economic interaction that changed two vastly different worlds--the undeveloped…
At the start of the first millennium AD, southern and western Europe formed part of the Mediterranean-based Roman Empire, the largest state western Eurasia has ever known. This book tells the story of the transformations which changed western Eurasia forever: of the birth of Eur…
Here is a fresh, provocative look at how a recognizable Europe came into being in the first millennium AD. With sharp analytic insight, Peter Heather explores the dynamics of migration and social and economic interaction that changed two vastly different worlds--the undeveloped …
Here is a fresh, provocative look at how a recognizable Europe came into being in the first millennium AD. With sharp analytic insight, Peter Heather explores the dynamics of migration and social and economic interaction that changed two vastly different worlds--the undeveloped …