About this title: From the twilight of the Roman Empire emerged the kingdoms of Merovingian Europe (c. 400-700 AD), which were, in turn, the basis for the nations of medieval and modern Europe. Professor Geary draws on the latest archaeological and historical findings to elucidate one of the least understood periods of European history. This text is aimed at both survey and graduate courses on medieval history, which invariably take the Merovingian period as their starting point. The other available works on this subject are widely acknowledged to be either inadequate or out of date. This concise synthesis of ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 2/25/1988
ISBN-13:9780195044584ISBN:0195044584
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Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA, New York, NY, USA
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780195044584ISBN:0195044584
Description: ACCEPTABLE. Age-yellowed pages have moderate amounts of highlighting and occasional corner creases; pen notes on Title page. Uncreased spine. Cover has minor creases and rub wear, but no tears. No previous owner names. 101109gs. read more
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"One of my biggest problems with the study of European History is the assumption that all culture, thought, and society ended when Romulus Augustulus was removed from the throne of the Western Roman Empire. For centuries writers and historians acted as if the world ceased to exist for about 300-hundred years until Charlemagne resurected it in 800. Professor Geary attempts to correct much of that thought in this book. A medievalist himself, he ties the culture of the Middle Ages, (think knight in armor, Crusades, and Monty Python), to the world of the ancient with the late Roman Empire. We can see in this book that indeed there is a clear and concise link between the two, and the slow development of the ancient Roman Empire into the Middle Ages.
Perhaps my biggest praise for the book is that Prof. Geary is clear to point out that the Frankish peoples and other Germanic tribes did not exist in a vaccuum. There eventual domination of areas that once were Roman was not always the swift and violent take-over we associate with say the Vandals, but was in some cases, like the Franks, a slow absorption that lead to their eventual dominance in the hole of power left when things in Rome fell apart. It's this important fact that highlights Late Antiquity, that transition between the Classical Roman age to the Medieval, and how the Roman world never really 'fell' as we have all been lead to believe by Gibbons and everyone else, but instead morphed and changed, and Geary highlights this by showing how these tribes that for so long had been on the borders of Rome begin to change what it once had been.
The book isn't presenting new information by any means, but it is trying to put a new and different spin on it. I will admit, I am bias in the fact that I was one of Professor Geary's students at UCLA, and the book does flow better when read in context with his lectures, (which I might add are VERY enjoyable, he has a dry wit which doesn't always come through in his academic readings). For anyone interested in this time period in history, I highly recommend it as a good and interesting read."
"A short, but good, book that explores (as best as is possible) the complexities of the interactions between the various groups in Gaul and surrounding territories as the Roman empire fell apart. Helps to dispel the Gibbon-esque notion of a decadent empire being torn apart by rampaging barbarians. A good place to start for anyone looking to get a more nuanced picture of the social development of post-Roman Europe."
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