Wickham offers both a new conception of Europe’s medieval period and a provocative revision of exactly how and why the Middle Ages matter. He provides illuminating vignettes that underscore how shifting social, economic, and political circumstances affected individual lives and international events. Tracking the entire sweep of the Middle Ages across Europe, Wickham focuses on important changes century by century, including such pivotal crises and moments as the fall of the western Roman Empire, Charlemagne’s reforms, the feudal revolution, the challenge of heresy, the destruction of the Byzantine Empire, the rebuilding of late medieval states, and the appalling devastation of the Black Death. angielski en, epub, 5.1MB, Medieval Europe - Christopher Wickham.epub.
Yet distinguished historian Chris Wickham has taken up the challenge in this. Yet distinguished historian Chris Wickham has taken up the challenge in this landmark book, and he succeeds in producing the most riveting account of medieval Europe in a generation. Medieval Europe as its meant to be heard, narrated by Derek Perkins. Tracking the entire sweep of the Middle Ages across Europe, Wickham focuses on important changes century by century, including such pivotal crises and moments. The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and hugely transformative period-one not easily chronicled within the scope of a few hundred pages.
The focus of this book is the thousand year window between the breakup of the Western Roman Empire and the start of the Reformation.
A spirited and thought-provoking history of the vast changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle Ages Finished Medieval Europe by Christopher Wickham, the 2017 book by the noted British Historian and Professor Emeritus at Oxford University.
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