Roger Collins’
Early Medieval Europe, 300-1000 is a fine narrative history of the transition from late antiquity to the medieval. I enjoyed the intelligent scepticism about the available written sources and the way Collins analysed historical actors in terms of the problems actually facing them (rather than some teleological notion of how they “
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The "achievements" of Western civilisation.
A "backward" society.
The "Fall" of Rome.
and so on.
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