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Early Medieval Europe 300–1000

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  • © 1999

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Authors:
  1. Roger Collins

    1. University of Edinburgh, UK

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  • New revised and expanded edition of this best selling survey textbook of early medieval European history 00000
    New chapter on Spain 707
    Final chapter on the 'Ottoman Age' fully rewritten

Part of the book series: Studies in European History (SEURH)

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvi
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  2. Problem-solving emperors

    • Roger Collins
    Pages 1-15

  3. The age of Constantine

    • Roger Collins
    Pages 16-30

  4. Frontier wars and civil wars, 350–395

    • Roger Collins
    Pages 31-46

  5. The battle of Adrianople and the sack of Rome

    • Roger Collins
    Pages 47-60

  6. A divided city: the Christian Church, 300–460

    • Roger Collins
    Pages 61-79

  7. The disappearance of an army

    • Roger Collins
    Pages 80-99

  8. The new kingdoms

    • Roger Collins
    Pages 100-115

  9. The twilight of the West, 518–568?

    • Roger Collins
    Pages 116-134

  10. Constantinople, Persia and the Arabs

    • Roger Collins
    Pages 135-152

  11. Decadent and do-nothing kings

    • Roger Collins
    Pages 153-172

  12. The re-creating of Britain

    • Roger Collins
    Pages 173-195

  13. The Lombard achievement, c. 540–712

    • Roger Collins
    Pages 196-217

  14. The sundering of East and West

    • Roger Collins
    Pages 218-233

  15. Monks and missionaries

    • Roger Collins
    Pages 234-261

  16. Towards a new western Empire, 714–800

    • Roger Collins
    Pages 262-290

  17. The new Constantine

    • Roger Collins
    Pages 291-308

  18. Frontier societies: Christian Spain, 711–1037

    • Roger Collins
    Pages 309-332

  19. ‘The dissension of kings’

    • Roger Collins
    Pages 333-363

  20. ‘The desolation of the pagans’

    • Roger Collins
    Pages 364-389
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About this book

This second edition of Roger Collins' classic textbook history of early medieval Europe is fully updated and revised to take account of the latest scholarship. Collins provides a synoptic, yet detailed, account of the centuries during which Europe changed from being an abstract geographical expression into a new, culturally coherent, if politically divided, entity. He examines how the social, economic and cultural structures of Antiquity were replaced by their medieval equivalents and also seeks to define the European context, by looking at those external forces, such as the nomadic confederacies of Central Asia and the Islamic empire of the Arabs, which helped to shape it through conflict.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Edinburgh, UK

    Roger Collins

About the author

ROGER COLLINS is Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Edinburgh.

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