Early Medieval Europe, 300-1000 Third edition

by Collins, Roger

• ISBN13: 9780230006737
• ISBN10: 0230006736
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-08-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This third edition of a classic textbook history of early medieval Europe is fully updated, rebalanced and revised to take account of the latest scholarship. Collins provides even greater treatment of the period 500-1000 and expands the geographical coverage of the book. Maps also feature in this new edition.

Author Biography

ROGER COLLINS is Honorary Fellow in History at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Table of Contents

List of maps and genealogical tables	p. x
Chronology of main events, 238-1000	p. xi
Preface to the first edition	p. xxii
Preface to the second edition	p. xxv
Preface to the third edition	p. xxvi
Introduction	p. xxvii
Crisis and change in the Roman Empire, 235-305	p. 1
Turbulent times, 235-85	p. 1
The reforms of Diocletian, 285-305	p. 8
The age of Constantine, 305-50	p. 16
The emperor and his rivals, 305-12	p. 16
Constantine and Christianity	p. 18
Conflict and succession, 324-50	p. 25
Protecting the Empire, 350-95	p. 31
Frontier defence, 350-61	p. 31
Julian the Reactionary, 361-3	p. 36
Civil wars, 363-95	p. 41
From the battle of Adrianople to the sack of Rome, 378-410	p. 47
'The coming of the Hunus'	p. 47
The Goths and the Empire, 376-95	p. 51
Stilicho or Honorius? Alternative strategies, 395-410	p. 54
A divided city: the Christian Church, 300-460	p. 61
Conflicts in Church and state	p. 61
Authority is given to Peter	p. 67
Monasticism	p. 75
The warlords	p. 79
Gual or Africa? 410-54	p. 79
The end of the Western Expire, 455-80	p. 85
The fall of Rome?	p. 94
The new kingdoms	p. 99
Roman generals and barbarian kings	p. 99
The Gothic kingdom in Italy	p. 103
Clovis and the Franks	p. 109
The twilight of the West, 518-68	p. 114
Prelude in Constantinople and Rome	p. 114
Justinian I and Africa, 527-33	p. 118
The Italian reconquest, 535-53	p. 127
Constantinople, Persia and the Arabs	p. 133
Rome's eastern neighbours	p. 133
Islam and the Arab conquests	p. 141
Decadent and do-nothing kings, 511-711	p. 151
The Gothic kingdom in Spain, c. 589-711	p. 151
Gual and the Merovingians, c. 511-687	p. 160
From Britain to the kingdoms of the Angles, 410-874	p. 173
A 'dark age', 410-597	p. 173
New Christian kingdoms, 598-685	p. 179
The Mercian hegemony,633-874	p. 188
The Lombards in Italy, c. 540-72	p. 198
Conquering Italy, 540-72	p. 198
Dukes and kings, 572-84	p. 203
The kingdom of the Lombards, 584-712	p. 209
The parting of East and West	p. 220
An end to cultural unity	p. 220
The role of Iconoclasm	p. 225
Rome between Constantinople and Francia	p. 230
Monks and missionaries	p. 236
The growth of western monasticism	p. 237
The Irish Church	p. 241
Spreading the word	p. 250
Francia revived, 714-68	p. 263
Charles 'the Hammer' and the recovery of Francia, 714-41	p. 263
Regaining the periphery: Pippin 'the Short', 741-68	p. 272
Charlemagne, 768-814	p. 280
The route to the imperial throne, 768-800	p. 280
The meaning of Empire, 800-14	p. 292
The Carolingian regime	p. 300
The apparatus of government	p. 300
The ideological programme	p. 307
Chroniclers of a warlike society	p. 314
'The dissension of kings', 814-911	p. 318
Louis the Pious, 814-40	p. 318
Kings and emperors in the West, 840-911	p. 330
'The desolation of the pagans'	p. 344
Raiders and traders	p. 344
The Vikings and Francia	p. 351
The Vikings and the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms	p. 359
Conversion and expansion	p. 366
The western frontiers of Christendom: Spain, 711-1037	p. 371
The Christians of al-Andalus	p. 371
The kingdoms of northern Spain, c. 718-910	p. 376
The kingdoms of Leó and the county of Castille, 910-1037	p. 385
The Empire revived, 875-1002	p. 394
Italy, 875-961	p. 394
Germany: the kingdom and the duchies, 911-62	p. 399
The eastwards expansion of Europe	p. 414
Emperor and pope	p. 424
Abbreviations	p. 430
Notes	p. 431
Bibliography	p. 510
Index	p. 527
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