Framing The Early Middle Ages Europe And The Mediterranean 400800 Chris Wickham by Chris Wickham. 9780191514197, 9780199212965, 9780199264490, 0191514195, 0199212961, 019926449X instant download after payment.

"In Framing the early middle ages Chris Wickham links documentary and archaeological evidence together, and creates a comparative history of the period 400-800. He sets out thematic analysis of each of the regions of the latest Roman and immediately post-Roman world, from Denmark to Egypt. The book concentrates on classic socio-economic themes: states and their funding, the wealth and identity of the aristocracy, estate management, peasant society, rural settlement, cities, and exchange. These are discussed region by region, in a way not attempted before. Wickham argues that, without this, the broader development of Europe and the Mediterranean cannot be properly understood."--BOOK JACKET.  Read more...
States --
Geography and politics --
The form of the state --
Aristocratic power-structures --
Aristocracies --
Managing the land --
Political breakdown and state-building in the North --
Peasantries --
Peasants and local societies: case studies --
Rural settlement and village societies --
Peasant society and its problems --
Networks --
Cities --
Systems of exchange --
General conclusions.