Empires and Barbarians: Migration, Development and the Birth of Europe - Rilegato

Heather, Peter

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0333989759 ISBN 13: 9780333989753

Casa editrice: Macmillan, 2009

Riassunto

At the start of the first millennium AD, southern and western Europe formed part of the Mediterranean-based Roman Empire, the largest state western Eurasia has ever known, and was set firmly on a trajectory towards towns, writing, mosaics, and central heating. Central, northern and eastern Europe was home to subsistence farmers, living in wooden houses with mud floors, whose largest political units weighed in at no more than a few thousand people. By the year 1000, Mediterranean domination of the European landscape had been destroyed. Instead of one huge Empire facing loosely organised subsistence farmers, Europe - from the Atlantic almost to the Urals - was home to an interacting commonwealth of Christian states, many of which are still with us today . This book tells the story of the transformations which changed western Eurasia forever: of the birth of Europe itself.

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Descrizione del libro:

The epic story of the creation of Europe by the bestselling author of The Fall of Rome

L'autore:

Peter Heather is currently a Fellow of Medieval History at Worcester College, Oxford, having previously taught at University College, London and Yale University. He is the author of the acclaimed and bestselling Fall of the Roman Empire also published by Pan Macmillan.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0333989759
• ISBN 13: 9780333989753
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 752