Europe after Rome: A New Cultural History 500-1000 by Julia M.H. Smith (English)

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Europe after Rome by Julia M.H. Smith Presents the early middle ages as a formative period in European history and spans the whole continent illuminating social, political and cultural life. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This is the first single-author study in over fifty years to offer an integrated appraisal of the early Middle Ages as a dynamic and formative period in European history. Written in an attractive and accessible style, it makes extensive use of original sources to introduce early medieval men and women at all levels of society from slave to emperor, and allows them to speak to the reader in their own words. It overturns traditional narratives and instead offers anentirely fresh approach to the centuries from c.500 to c.1000. Rejecting any notion of a dominant, uniform early medieval culture, it argues that the fundamental characteristic of the early middle agesis diversity of experience. To explain how the men and women who lived in this period ordered their world in cultural, social, and political terms, it employs an innovative methodology combining cultural history, regional studies, and gender history. Ranging comparatively from Ireland to Hungary and from Scotland and Scandinavia to Spain and Italy, the analysis highlights three themes: regional variation, power, and the legacy of Rome. The books eight chapters examine thefollowing subjects: Speaking and Writing; Living and Dying; Friends and Relations; Men and Women; Labour and Lordship; Getting and Giving; Kingship and Christianity; Rome and the Peoples of Europe.Collectively, they establish the complex cultural realities which distinguished Europe in the period between the end of the central institutions of the western Roman empire in the fifth century and the emergence of a Rome-centred papal monarchy from the late eleventh century onwards. In the context of debates about the social, religious and cultural meaning of Europe in the early twenty-first century, this books seeks the origins of European cultural pluralism and diversity in the earlyMiddle Ages. Notes Presents the early middle ages as a formative period in European history and spans the whole continent illuminating social, political and cultural life. Author Biography Julia Smith is Professor in Medieval History, University of Glasgow. Table of Contents IntroductionPart I: Fundamentals1: Speaking and Writing2: Living and DyingPart II: Affinities3: Friends and Relations4: Men and WomenPart III: Resources5: Labour and Lordship6: Getting and GivingPart IV: Ideologies7: Kingship and Christianity8: Rome and the Peoples of EuropeEpilogue Review `Review from previous edition This book is a masterpiece of condensed exposition. It is also a break-through - 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 civilisation 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 entirity ... Reading Europe After Rome I was constantly reminded of another synthesis ofgenius which now lies at the root of the modern study of the high middle ages - that is, Richard Southerns The Making of the Middle Ages ... It was a Portrait of an Age. Julia Smith has done the same for the half millennium which preceded Southerns Middle Ages.Professor Peter Brown, Princeton University Long Description This is the first single-author study in over fifty years to offer an integrated appraisal of the early Middle Ages as a dynamic and formative period in European history. Written in an attractive and accessible style, it makes extensive use of original sources to introduce early medieval men and women at all levels of society from slave to emperor, and allows them to speak to the reader in their own words. It overturns traditional narratives and instead offers anentirely fresh approach to the centuries from c.500 to c.1000. Rejecting any notion of a dominant, uniform early medieval culture, it argues that the fundamental characteristic of the early middle ages is diversity of experience. To explain how the men and women who lived in this period ordered theirworld in cultural, social, and political terms, it employs an innovative methodology combining cultural history, regional studies, and gender history. Ranging comparatively from Ireland to Hungary and from Scotland and Scandinavia to Spain and Italy, the analysis highlights three themes: regional variation, power, and the legacy of Rome. The books eight chapters examine the following subjects: Speaking and Writing; Living and Dying; Friends and Relations; Men and Women;Labour and Lordship; Getting and Giving; Kingship and Christianity; Rome and the Peoples of Europe. Collectively, they establish the complex cultural realities which distinguished Europe in the period between the end of the central institutions of the western Roman empire in the fifth century and theemergence of a Rome-centred papal monarchy from the late eleventh century onwards. In the context of debates about the social, religious and cultural meaning of Europe in the early twenty-first century, this books seeks the origins of European cultural pluralism and diversity in the early Middle Ages. Review Text `Review from previous edition This book is a masterpiece of condensed exposition. It is also a break-through - 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 civilisation 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 entirity ... Reading Europe After Rome I was constantly reminded of another synthesis of genius which now lies at the root of the modern study of the high middle ages - that is, RichardSoutherns The Making of the Middle Ages ... It was a Portrait of an Age. Julia Smith has done the same for the half millennium which preceded Southerns Middle Ages.Professor Peter Brown, Princeton University Review Quote "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 Feature Presents the early middle ages as a formative period in European historySpans the whole of Europe, from Ireland to Hungary and Scandinavia to ItalyIlluminates the social, political, and cultural life of the period Details ISBN0192892630 Short Title EUROPE AFTER ROME Language English ISBN-10 0192892630 ISBN-13 9780192892638 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2007 Imprint Oxford University Press Subtitle A New Cultural History 500-1000 Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 940.1 DOI 10.1604/9780192892638 UK Release Date 2007-06-28 AU Release Date 2007-06-28 NZ Release Date 2007-06-28 Illustrations numerous maps Author Julia M.H. Smith Pages 400 Publisher Oxford University Press Publication Date 2007-06-28 Alternative 9780199244270 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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