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Early Med Europe 300-1000 Paperback – 15 November 1999

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In this text the author provides an account of the centuries during which Europe changed from being an abstract geographical expression into a new, culturally coherent, if politically divided, entity. It examines how the social, economic and cultural structures of Antiquity were replaced by their medieval equivalents and also seeks to define the European context, by looking at those external forces, such as the nomadic confederacies of Central Asia and the Islamic empire of the Arabs, which helped to shape it through conflict.
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  6. ISBN-10
    9780333658086
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'The historical spectrum covered is astonishingly extensive, and, ebcause of this, the volume will be useful as a reference work.' - Professor Albrecht Classen, Department of German Studies, University of Arizona Review of first edition: 'A large and intricate body of fundamental research on the narrative sources, deployed with clarity and expertise for which many readers will be extremely grateful.' - Times Higher Education Supplement

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ROGER COLLINS is Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Edinburgh.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0333658086
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Palgrave UK Print; 2 edition (15 November 1999)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 1 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780333658086
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0333658086
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 14 x 3.17 x 21.6 cm
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David Hébert
5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it. As an amateur
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Loved it. As an amateur, it's a good introduction. English is not even my language and it was easy to comprehend.
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DR ROBERT BATES
5.0 out of 5 stars A well-written and concise summary of the period which uses ...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 February 2018
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A well-written and concise summary of the period which uses recent interpretations. An ideal text for newcomers to the field whilst also offering new twists to more experienced readers.
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Jorge Doehner
5.0 out of 5 stars Top quality reference book for early medieval Europe
Reviewed in the United States on 6 March 2013
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Excelent scholarly work, well documented, easy to read. The perfect book to position and understand the major players (people's) during that age, and from there proceed to in-depth study of the ones that interest you the most. be that Goths, Thuringii, Alamani, Vandals, Alan's, Franks, Lombards, Huns, etc., all viewed in perspective to their relationship and involvement with the Roman Empire.
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James Kenney
4.0 out of 5 stars A small price to pay for the insights and understanding set forth in this amazing book.
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Do not buy this book unless you are seriously interested in the history of medieval Europe. That said, if you are this is quite a good book. I'll summarize my thoughts into pros and cons, since there are several of each.

PROS: The best thing about this book is its inspired structure. It is not organized in a narrative way. Instead it is organized geographically/politically. Each region of Europe is examined separately, and bite-size chunks of the history of how that region evolved from the later Roman Empire into feudal Europe. The treatment of the various areas are handled so that material learned from study of a previous area, is germane to this process in another region. Another plus is that non-European areas are discussed, as their divergent interests led to conflict with a European entity. For example, the constant struggle between the Byzantine Empire and the Sassanid dynasty of Persia is discussed a number of times, and in detail at least once.

Another pro is the careful attention our historian pays to analyzing our sources, and especially the biases of their authors, without hesitating to indicate his personal opinion about their reliability. Sources and evidence are everything to a historian, and those who do not consider the motives behind the recording of a version of history, are simply not doing their job. The skill and objectivity Roger Collins brings to this task is impressive, and convincing. When he is unsure, which is often, given the tenuous evidence we have about this difficult period, he does not hesitate to say so, and he explains why he is unsure.

Finally, this book refutes the general view of this period, that it was the "Dark Ages." An ongoing thesis Collins discusses is how the collapse of the Western Empire's borders led to a diffusion of Roman knowledge and literature to a much farther extent than previously. Indeed, all our extant Latin manuscripts come down to us through the Franks, in large part courtesy of the Church. This helps dispel the myth that much of what we know about ancient Mediterranean society comes to us from Arabic preservation of ancient manuscripts. This is true of Greek manuscripts, but not of Latin ones, which were preserved by the Merovingians and the Carolingians.

CONS: First, the font is tiny; there are 45 lines of print per page. Second, Collins, while a wonderful historian is not mellifluous. Here is a sentence chosen from a page picked at random: "The region they targeted was Frisia, the flat, marshy land between the Rhine and the North sea, whose inhabitants were noted for their maritime and trading activities and who had contributed a distinctive element to the Germanic settlement in the post-Roman period, but who had so far resisted both Frankish political overlordship and conversion to Christianity."

There is a lot to unpack from this sentence, and it required more than one attempt to unpack it. Thus, this 434 page history is more nearly the equivalent of a 600 page less challenging text.

None-the-less, this is a small price to pay for the insights and understanding set forth in this amazing book.
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 May 2017
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I don't like writing reviews. This product was fine.
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