Titlebook: Early Medieval Europe 300–1000; Roger Collins Textbook 1999Latest edition Roger Collins 1999 Britain.chronology.civil war.empire.Europe.hi

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The re-creating of Britain,e end of Roman rule. In part this is a reflection of the insularity of the English historiographical tradition, but it is also a reaction to genuine dissimilarities in the development of Britain and other parts of Western Europe. However, these may be fewer and less significant than is usually belie

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,The Lombard achievement, ,. 540–712,onists of the events of this period who, by name at least, might have been familiar to readers of classical authors. The Lombards were given a brief mention in the . of Tacitus (. 98), and were there noted for the smallness of their numbers and their hardiness as fighters..; They appear to have been

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The sundering of East and West,ce the third century the African Church had produced the majority of the outstanding thinkers of the western tradition. Even after the death of Augustine in 430 and the Vandal conquest, Africa had continued to produce writers of high intellectual stature. Nor had they been of purely local significan

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Monks and missionaries,riking features of the second half of this period in particular was the way in which the former physical and intellectual boundaries of the Roman world came to be superseded. The frontiers of the Empire had represented the limits of the civilised world as far as its inhabitants were concerned, and t

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The new Constantine,y were doing or precisely where it was intended to lead.. This is true even in the literal sense, since there had been no imperial ordination in the West since the fifth century and the liturgical procedures followed were new and neither traditional nor borrowed from the Byzantine Empire. The use of

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,Frontier societies: Christian Spain, 711–1037,alley, sacking Zaragoza, its principal city, and in 720 they crossed the Pyrenees, and eliminated a vestigial Visigothic kingdom centred on Narbonne. In part the lack of sustained resistance that they encountered prior to their first attacks on Aquitaine in 721 was a reflection of the previously pea

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,‘The desolation of the pagans’, It was to be the start of a series of such assaults on parts of Britain, Ireland, and the Channel and Atlantic coasts of France which at times would become an almost annual occurrence. Such raids in turn proved to be the forerunners of waves of migration out of Scandinavia. The destructiveness of t

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