The inheritance of Rome. And the maps (10 of them) in the front of the book are excellent and probably why I picked this up in the first place. If anything, it has strengthened it. In many ways brilliant. Certainly Arabia was never part of the Roman Empire, although obviously their conquests expanded into parts of the old Empire. Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians We use cookies to give you the best possible experience. Title: The Inheritance of Rome: A History of Europe from 400 to 1000 ISBN: 0140290141 Filename: the-inheritance-of-rome-a-history-of-europe-from-400-to-1000.pdf Release date: January 28, 2010 Number of pages: 688 pages Author: Chris Wickham Publisher: Penguin Like the earlier book, The Inheritance of Rome is more concerned with the uses the people of the era made of their understanding of the past than with giving a straightforward chronology of the era. This isn’t the place to drop hints of what this forest of names, places, and events is about. I went into this with high hopes, but the subtitle of this book 'Illuminating the Dark Ages' could not be less accurate. Let's be very, very clear: nothing in history is 'inevitable,' everything is 'contingent,' and we'd be fools to write history with our hindsight. The Inheritance of Rome by Lecturer in Medieval History Chris Wickham, 9780143117421, available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. Here, the tenants told Augustine and their landowner that they would leave if he came.”, “Roman envoys to Attila’s court in 449 greatly offended the Huns when they said that, although Attila was a man, Theodosius II was a god; this was a self-evident statement in Roman eyes, even though the envoys were doubtless overwhelmingly Christian.”, “The gods were gone, but imperial status remained unchanged –divinus remained a technical term meaning ‘imperial’. The various Penguin History series are all without footnotes and aimed at 'intelligent laymen' or undergraduate review course. Thankfully there is Chris Wickham: a Chichele Professor of Medieval History at the University of Oxford and author of Framing the Middle Ages. Such an amazing course, and such a fascinating book!! This is an exceptionally detailed and well thought out book. Welcome back. There are no discussion topics on this book yet. search results for this author. Even if the ‘Dark Ages’ had been exaggerated by early scholars, my impression was still that not much intellectual progress had been made in Europe after the Greek Hellenistic period (as opposed to in India and the Islamic world) - and that this state of affairs deteriorated after the collapse of the Roman Empire - until the 16th and 17th Centuries. If I took time to talk to those who don’t appreciate this period of history, I would tell them to read this book because Wickham tells this history better than almost anyone. Not even the Charlemagne chapter interested me. I approached this book with an open mind. While finishing this book on the pages devoted to XI century the very first chapters telling about V-VI centuries seemed to me so far away as these centuries really are to us, contemporary readers. It is a broad history of the Early Middle Ages, the period after what is commonly called the fall of the Western Roman Empire (though multiple reviewers argue Wickham is critical of the view that Rome fell). Wildcard Searching If you want to search for multiple variations of a word, you can substitute a special symbol (called a "wildcard") for one or more letters. 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