{"product_id":"chris-wickham-framing-the-early-middle-ages-9780199212965","title":"Framing the Early Middle Ages","description":"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 early medieval archaeology has also transformed our source-base, but this has not been adequately integrated into analyses of documentary history in almost any country.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nIn Framing the Early Middle Ages Chris Wickham combines documentary and archaeological evidence to create a comparative history of the period 400-800. His analysis embraces each of the regions of the late Roman and immediately post-Roman world, from Denmark to Egypt. The book concentrates on classic socio-economic themes, state finance, the wealth and identity of the aristocracy, estate management, peasant society, rural settlement, cities, and exchange. These give only a partial picture of the period, but they frame and explain other developments.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nEarlier syntheses have taken the development of a single region as 'typical', with divergent developments presented as exceptions. This book takes all different developments as typical, and aims to construct a synthesis based on a better understanding of difference and the reasons for it.","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Used - good","offer_id":53268692992342,"sku":"9780199212965-G","price":45.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9780199212965_1.jpg?v=1778588343","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/chris-wickham-framing-the-early-middle-ages-9780199212965","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}