{"product_id":"framing-the-early-middle-ages","title":"Framing the Early Middle Ages","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Roman empire tends to be seen as a whole whereas the early middle ages tends to be seen as a collection of regional histories, roughly corresponding to the land-areas of modern nation states. As a result, early medieval history is much more fragmented, and there have been few convincing syntheses of socio-economic change in the post-Roman world since the 1930s. In recent decades, the rise of early medieval archaeology has also transformed our source-base, but\n\u003cbr\u003ethis has not been adequately integrated into analyses of documentary history in almost any country. In Framing the Early Middle Ages  Chris Wickham combines documentary and archaeological\n\u003cbr\u003eevidence to create a comparative history of the period 400-800. His analysis embraces each of the regions of the late Roman and immediately post-Roman world, from Denmark to Egypt. The book concentrates on classic socio-economic themes, state finance, the wealth and identity of the aristocracy, estate management, peasant society, rural settlement, cities, and exchange. These give only a partial picture of the period, but they frame and explain other developments.Earlier syntheses\n\u003cbr\u003ehave taken the development of a single region as 'typical', with divergent developments presented as exceptions. This book takes all different developments as typical, and aims to construct a synthesis\n\u003cbr\u003ebased on a better understanding of difference and the reasons for it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43934992629998,"sku":"9780199212965","price":124.8,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780199212965.jpg?v=1706220893","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/framing-the-early-middle-ages","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}