Europe after Rome

The 500 years following the collapse of the Roman Empire is still popularly perceived as Europe's 'Dark Ages', marked by barbarism and uniformity. Julia Smith's masterly book sweeps away this view, and instead illuminates a time of great vitality and cultural diversity. Through a combination of cultural history, regional studies, and gender history, she shows how men and women at all levels of society ordered their world, and she allows them to speak to the reader directly in their
own words. This is the first single-author study in over fifty years to offer an integrated appraisal of all aspects of the early middle ages.

(Oxford)

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"This book is a masterpiece of condensed exposition. It is also a breakthrough--a truly New Cultural History--in the quiet determination of the author to approach very old themes from angles refreshingly different from those from which they have usually been approached . . . It is, above all, the first complete account of the early middle ages as a civilization in its own right. It catches the living texture of western Europe, from Rome to the Hebrides, for a half millennium of its history. It is truly the study of a civilization in its entirety. . ."--Peter Brown, Princeton University<br>

(Oxford)

Introduction; PART I: FUNDAMENTALS; 1. Speaking and Writing; 2. Living and Dying; PART II: AFFINITIES; 3. Friends and Relations; 4. Men and Women; PART III: RESOURCES; 5. Labour and Lordship; 6. Getting and Giving; PART IV: IDEOLOGIES; 7. Kingship and Christianity; 8. Rome and the Peoples of Europe; Epilogue

(Oxford)