TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wickham,Chris
TI  - Framing the early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean 400-800 
SN  - 019926449X (hbk.)
AV  - D121 .W53 2005
U1  - 940.12 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Middle Ages
KW  - Civilization, Medieval
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
KW  - 392-814
KW  - Mediterranean Region
KW  - Civilization
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [832]-943) and index; States -- Geography and politics -- The form of the state -- Aristocratic power-structures -- Aristocracies -- Managing the land -- Political breakdown and state-building in the North -- Peasantries -- Peasants and local societies: case studies -- Rural settlement and village societies -- Peasant society and its problems -- Networks -- Cities -- Systems of exchange -- General conclusions
N2  - "In Framing the early middle ages Chris Wickham links documentary and archaeological evidence together, and creates a comparative history of the period 400-800. He sets out thematic analysis of each of the regions of the latest Roman and immediately post-Roman world, from Denmark to Egypt. The book concentrates on classic socio-economic themes: states and their funding, the wealth and identity of the aristocracy, estate management, peasant society, rural settlement, cities, and exchange. These are discussed region by region, in a way not attempted before. Wickham argues that, without this, the broader development of Europe and the Mediterranean cannot be properly understood."--BOOK JACKET
ER  -