Framing the Early Middle Ages
2005 history book by Christopher Wickham
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Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean 400–800 is a 2005 history book by English historian Christopher Wickham at the University of Oxford. It is a broad history of the period between the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the transition to the Middle Ages, often called Late Antiquity.
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| Author | Christopher Wickham |
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| Subject | Medieval studies |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Publication date | 8 December 2005 |
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| Pages | 1,018 pp (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 978-0-1992-6449-0 |
The book won the 2005 Wolfson History Prize, the 2006 Deutscher Memorial Prize, and the 2006 James Henry Breasted Prize from the American Historical Association.
According to Chris Wickham's website,[1] the book will "lead into a general study of the early middle ages for Penguin books." This book, titled The Inheritance of Rome: A History of Europe from 400 to 1000, was published on March 24, 2009.[2]
Editions
- Hardcover, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-926449-0
- Paperback, ISBN 978-0-19-921296-5
See also
- The Medieval New: Ambivalence in an Age of Innovation by Patricia Clare Ingham