Framing the early middle ages : Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800
Wickham, Chris
Framing the early middle ages : Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800
Chris Wickham
- Oxford Oxford University Press 2006
- xxviii, 990 p. : maps
Contents: PART I: STATES; 1. Introduction; 2. Geography and Politics; 3. The Form of the State; PART II: ARISTOCRATIC POWER-STRUCTURES; 4. Aristocracies; 5. Managing the Land; 6. Political Breakdown and State-Building in the North; PART III: PEASANTRIES; 7. Peasants and Local Societies: Case Studies; 8. Rural Settlement and Village Societies; 9. Peasant Society and its Problems; PART IV: NETWORKS; 10. Cities; 11. Systems of Exchange; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
9780199212965
Civilization, Medieval Europe -- History -- 392-814 Middle Ages