The Birth of the West

The Birth of the West

Author: Paul Collins

Publisher: Public Affairs

Published: 2013-02-12

Total Pages: 498

ISBN-13: 161039013X

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A narrative history of the origins of Western civilization argues that Europe was transformed in the tenth century from a continent rife with violence and ignorance to a continent on the rise.


The 10th Century in Western Europe

The 10th Century in Western Europe

Author: Igor Santos Salazar

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Published: 2023-08-17

Total Pages: 149

ISBN-13: 1803275146

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11 essays from both historians and archaeologists achieve a re-reading of a the tenth century, which has been central to the interpretation of the historical development of Europe over the past decade.


Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages (500-1300) (2 vols)

Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages (500-1300) (2 vols)

Author: Florin Curta

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-07-08

Total Pages: 1426

ISBN-13: 9004395199

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Winner of the 2020 Verbruggen prize This book offers an an overview of the current state of research and a basic route map for navigating an abundant historiography available in 10 different languages. The book is also an invitation to comparison between various parts of the region over the same period.


Fortified Settlements in Early Medieval Europe

Fortified Settlements in Early Medieval Europe

Author: Neil Christie

Publisher: Oxbow Books

Published: 2016-08-31

Total Pages: 970

ISBN-13: 178570236X

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Twenty-three contributions by leading archaeologists from across Europe explore the varied forms, functions and significances of fortified settlements in the 8th to 10th centuries AD. These could be sites of strongly martial nature, upland retreats, monastic enclosures, rural seats, island bases, or urban nuclei. But they were all expressions of control - of states, frontiers, lands, materials, communities - and ones defined by walls, ramparts or enclosing banks. Papers run from Irish cashels to Welsh and Pictish strongholds, Saxon burhs, Viking fortresses, Byzantine castra, Carolingian creations, Venetian barricades, Slavic strongholds, and Bulgarian central places, and coverage extends fully from northwest Europe, to central Europe, the northern Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Strongly informed by recent fieldwork and excavations, but drawing also where available on the documentary record, this important collection provides fully up-to-date reviews and analyses of the archaeology of the distinctive settlement forms that characterized Europe in the Early Middle Ages.


The Rise of Cities in North-West Europe

The Rise of Cities in North-West Europe

Author: Adriaan Verhulst

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1999-10-21

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780521469098

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A concise study of large time frame (fourth-twelfth centuries) charting the growth and development of cities in north-west Europe.


England and the Continent in the Tenth Century

England and the Continent in the Tenth Century

Author: David W. Rollason

Publisher: Brepols Publishers

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9782503532080

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This series focuses on Western Europe in the Early Middle Ages and covers work in the areas of history, Language & literature, archaeology, art history and religious studies. It brings together current scholarship on early medieval Britain with scholarship on western continental Europe and Viking Scandinavia; these areas have more traditionally been studied separately or in terms of the interaction of discrete cultures and regions. As well as advocating new approaches across geographical and political divisions, this series spans the conventional distinctions between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages on the one hand, and the Early Middle Ages and the twelfth Century on the other.