Empires and Barbarians: Migration, Development and the Birth of Europe - Hardcover

Heather, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0333989759 ISBN 13: 9780333989753

Publisher: Macmillan, 2009

Synopsis

At the start of the first millennium AD, southern and western Europe formed part of the Mediterranean-based Roman Empire, the largest state western Eurasia has ever known, and was set firmly on a trajectory towards towns, writing, mosaics, and central heating. Central, northern and eastern Europe was home to subsistence farmers, living in wooden houses with mud floors, whose largest political units weighed in at no more than a few thousand people. By the year 1000, Mediterranean domination of the European landscape had been destroyed. Instead of one huge Empire facing loosely organised subsistence farmers, Europe – from the Atlantic almost to the Urals – was home to an interacting commonwealth of Christian states, many of which are still with us today . This book tells the story of the transformations which changed western Eurasia forever: of the birth of Europe itself.

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About the Author

Peter Heather was born in Northern Ireland in 1960 and educated at Maidstone Grammar School and New College, Oxford. He has taught at University College, London, and Yale University, and is currently a Fellow of Medieval History at Worcester College Oxford. He is the author of a number of acclaimed works of history, including The Fall of the Roman Empire, published by Pan Macmillan in 2005.

Edition details

• Publisher: Macmillan
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0333989759
• ISBN 13: 9780333989753
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 752