Escrito por el prestigioso medievalista Chris Wickham, este trabajo presenta una tesis original que revisa y rebate todo lo escrito sobre la economía de los siglos X-XII en el entorno mediterráneo.
Con una colección de sus artículos más importantes, Chris Wickham se enfrenta a una amplia gama de cuestiones, desde los rápidos cambios en las estructuras económicas al final del Imperio romano y los problemas clave...
Frente a la historiografía tradicional que suele ver la Alta Edad Media a la luz de una serie de historias regionales y que resulta, por ello, muy fragmentada, el profesor Wickham combina aquí los datos documentales y arqueológicos...
Amid the disintegration of the Kingdom of Italy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, a new form of collective governmentâthe communeâarose in the cities of northern and central Italy. Sleepwalking into a New World...
A new history of medieval Rome, told not from the standpoint of the Church, but of the Romans themselves. This volume examines Romeâs cultural, political, religious, legal, and social identity to discover how the city functioned between...
Essays examining the Langobards, with important conclusions for early medieval Italy. The Langobards or Lombards were the last Germanic group to invade the Roman Mediterranean, crossing the Alps into Italy in 568-9. They were nonetheless one of the longes...
"The breath  of reading is astounding, the knowledge displayed is awe-inspiring and the attention quietly given to critical theory and the postmodern questioning of evidence is both careful and sincere."-- The Daily Telegraph (UK)...
Since 1989, there have been many claims that Marxist approaches to history are out of date. As the challenge of more recent events shows, however, history has not stopped and historical change continues to need explanation. There is still plenty of space...