Barbarians To Angels The Dark Ages Reconsidered
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Barbarians to Angels The Dark Ages Reconsidered
Author | : Peter S. Wells |
Publsiher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2009-08-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780393335392 |
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A rich and surprising look at the robust European culture that thrived after the collapse of Rome. The barbarians who destroyed the glory that was Rome demolished civilization along with it, and for the next four centuries the peasants and artisans of Europe barely held on. Random violence, mass migration, disease, and starvation were the only ways of life. This is the picture of the Dark Ages that most historians promote. But archaeology tells a different story. Peter Wells, one of the world’s leading archaeologists, surveys the archaeological record to demonstrate that the Dark Ages were not dark at all. The kingdoms of Christendom that emerged starting in the ninth century sprang from a robust, previously little-known European culture, albeit one that left behind few written texts.
Introduction to Early Medieval Western Europe 300 900
Author | : Matthew Innes |
Publsiher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 552 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0415215064 |
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This comprehensive survey synthesises a quarter of a century of pathbreaking research in an accessible manner for undergraduate students. Matthew Innes combines an account of the historical background of the period with discussion of the social, economic, cultural and political structures within it.
A Cultural History of Gardens in the Medieval Age
Author | : Michael Leslie |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2015-04-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781350995871 |
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The Middle Ages was a time of great upheaval - the period between the seventh and fourteenth centuries saw great social, political and economic change. The radically distinct cultures of the Christian West, Byzantium, Persian-influenced Islam, and al-Andalus resulted in different responses to the garden arts of antiquity and different attitudes to the natural world and its artful manipulation. Yet these cultures interacted and communicated, trading plants, myths and texts. By the fifteenth century the garden as a cultural phenomenon was immensely sophisticated and a vital element in the way society saw itself and its relation to nature. A Cultural History of Gardens in the Medieval Age presents an overview of the period with essays on issues of design, types of gardens, planting, use and reception, issues of meaning, verbal and visual representation of gardens, and the relationship of gardens to the larger landscape.
The Middle Ages
Author | : Winston Black |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2019-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781440862328 |
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This book guides readers through 10 pervasive fictions about medieval history, provides them with the sources and analytical tools to critique those fictions, and identifies what really happened in the Middle Ages. This book is the first to present fictions about the medieval world to serious students of history. Instead of merely listing myths and stating they are wrong, this volume promotes critical historical analysis of those myths and how they came to be. Each of the ten chapters outlines a pervasive modern myth about medieval European history, describing "What People Think Happened" and "What Really Happened," and illustrating both trends with primary source documents. The book demonstrates that historical fictions also have a history, and that while we need to replace those fictions with facts about the medieval past, we can also benefit from understanding how a fiction about the Middle Ages developed and what that says about our modern perspectives on the past. Through this innovative presentation, readers are introduced to a wide range of sources, from Roman imperial perspectives on the "Fall of Rome" to songs of chivalry and chronicles of the Crusades, scientific treatises on the shape of the Earth and the creation of the universe and early modern stories and textbooks that developed or perpetuated historical myths.
The Barbarians of Ancient Europe
Author | : Larissa Bonfante |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 441 |
Release | : 2011-04-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521194044 |
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Deals with the reality of the indigenous peoples of Europe - Thracians, Scythians, Celts, Germans, Etruscans, and other peoples of Italy, the Alps, and beyond.
Rethinking Mission in the Postcolony
Author | : Marion Grau |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2011-06-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780567561503 |
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A progressive Christian approach to soteriology and missiology in a global, postcolonial context.
The Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age
Author | : Colin Haselgrove,Katharina Rebay-Salisbury,Peter S. Wells |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 1425 |
Release | : 2023-10-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780191019487 |
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The Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age presents a broad overview of current understanding of the archaeology of Europe from 1000 BC through to the early historic periods, exploiting the large quantities of new evidence yielded by the upsurge in archaeological research and excavation on this period over the last thirty years. Three introductory chapters situate the reader in the times and the environments of Iron Age Europe. Fourteen regional chapters provide accessible syntheses of developments in different parts of the continent, from Ireland and Spain in the west to the borders with Asia in the east, from Scandinavia in the north to the Mediterranean shores in the south. Twenty-six thematic chapters examine different aspects of Iron Age archaeology in greater depth, from lifeways, economy, and complexity to identity, ritual, and expression. Among the many topics explored are agricultural systems, settlements, landscape monuments, iron smelting and forging, production of textiles, politics, demography, gender, migration, funerary practices, social and religious rituals, coinage and literacy, and art and design.