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Europe after Rome : a new cultural history 500-1000 /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2005.
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| Colección: | Online access with subscription: Proquest Ebook Central.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 asp. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 384 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-343) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781429430937 1429430931 9780199244270 0199244278 9786610759248 6610759243 1280759240 9781280759246 0191514276 9780191514272 |