Название: The Inheritance of Rome: A History of Europe from 400 to 1000
Автор: Chris Wickham
Издательство: Penguin
ISBN: 0713994290
Год: 2009
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 808
Для сайта: LitMy
Размер: 6,5 МБ
Язык: Английский
The idea that with the decline of the Roman Empire Europe entered into some immense 'dark age' has long been viewed as inadequate by many historians. How could a world still so profoundly shaped by Rome and which encompassed such remarkable societies as the Byzantine, Carolingian and Ottonian empires, be anything other than central to the development of European history? How could a world of so many peoples, whether expanding, moving or stable, of Goths, Franks, Vandals, Byzantines, Arabs, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, whose genetic and linguistic inheritors we all are, not lie at the heart of how we understand ourselves? "The Inheritance of Rome" is a work of remarkable scope and ambition.