Крис Уикхем

Starred Review. Building on the foundation he laid in Framing the Early Middle Ages, award-winning Oxford historian Wickham constructs a magisterial narrative of the political, economic, cultural and religious fabrics that constituted the crazy quilt of Europe's Dark Ages. Negating what he calls a common teleological view of this period as the source of European nations and a modern sense of ...

The Roman empire tends to be seen as a whole whereas the early middle ages tends to be seen as a collection of regional histories, roughly corresponding to the land-areas of modern nation states. As a result, early medieval history is much more fragmented, and there have been few convincing syntheses of socio-economic change in the post-Roman world since the 1930s. In recent decades, the rise of e...

Medieval Rome analyses the history of the city of Rome between 900 and 1150, a period of major change in the city. This volume doesn't merely seek to tell the story of the city from the traditional Church standpoint; instead, it engages in studies of the city's processions, material culture, legal transformations, and sense of the past, seeking to unravel the complexities of Roman cultur...

О чем: тысячелетие, прошедшее с распада Римской империи до начала Реформации, было насыщено преобразованиями, и потому его не так легко описать в рамках одной книги. Тем не менее британский историк Крис Уикхем принял этот вызов. Он показывает Средневековье как динамичный период масштабных перемен, фокусируясь на таких знаковых событиях, как падение Рима, реформы Карла Великого, распространение хри...