Titlebook: Early Medieval Europe 300-1000; Roger Collins Textbook 1991Latest edition Macmillan Publishers Limited 1991 Britain.civil war.empire.Europ

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The new kingdoms,from other and generally earlier ages. Without due caution and letting the perjorative nature of the name speak by itself it would be easy to imagine them as being little better than savages, naked, hairy and doubtless garishly painted. In practice, however, the various German peoples were, in terms

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,The twilight of the West, 518–568,enigmatic account of it, Clovis’s victory over the Goths in 507 resulted in some form of imperial recognition in the following year. According to Gregory this was the granting of an honorary consulship.. Clovis’s baptism, and thus his formal renunciation of Arianism, may have also taken place at thi

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Constantinople, Persia and the Arabs, greater stability in the fifth. After Julian’s disastrous invasion of Persia and Jovian’s ignominious retreat and treaty, periods of conflict between the two empires became less frequent and the scale of operations more restricted. In general, apart from the opening and the closing phases of the Sa

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Decadent and do-nothing kings,ho wish to characterise the final stages of the Visigothic kingdom in Spain as being decadent, and who see the proof of this in the rapidity of its overthrow. If anything, quite the contrary conclusion can be drawn from the ‘battle in the Transductine Promontories’ between the Visigothic royal army

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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period in particular was the way in which the former physical and intellectual boundaries of the Roman world came to be superseded.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