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This book explains the transition from early to later European Middle Ages and how ideas can move history. By looking at the long lines of intellectual traditions back into Late Antiquity, Gabriele demonstrates the dynamism of medieval Europe's intellectual life and how much we can know about the period by listening closely to our sources.

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A lively and magisterial popular history that refutes common misperceptions of the European Middle Ages and takes us through ten centuries and crisscrosses Europe and the Mediterranean, Asia and Africa, revisiting familiar people and events with new light cast upon them. We look with fresh eyes on the Fall of Rome, Charlemagne, the Vikings, the Crusades, and the Black Death, but also to the multi-religious experience of Iberia, the rise of Byz...

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This volume explores a world that thought deeply about imperial power and emperors but one that perhaps never had an "empire" of its own. These synthetic essays from experts across a wide variety of disciplines mine the intellectual world of this period and begin to demolish the myth of the so-called "Dark Ages, " showing how the European Middle Ages were illuminated by vigorous debates that echo today. The story of medieval Western empires is...

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The beauty and levity that Perry and Gabriele have captured in this book are what I think will help it to become a standard text for general audiences for years to come....The Bright Ages is a rare thing?a nuanced historical work that almost anyone can enjoy reading.??Slate"Incandescent and ultimately intoxicating." ?The Boston GlobeA lively and magisterial popular history that refutes common misperceptions of the European Middle Ages, showing...

This volume explores a world that thought deeply about imperial power and emperors but one that perhaps never had an "empire" of its own. These synthetic essays from experts across a wide variety of disciplines mine the intellectual world of this period and begin to demolish the myth of the so-called "Dark Ages, " showing how the European Middle Ages were illuminated by vigorous debates that echo today. The story of medieval Western empires is...

A magisterial new history of the Middle Ages that takes apart the common misunderstanding of the period as one of darkness, sickness, and oppression?but which in reality, like all of humanity, was complicated by spots of real beauty and communion.

Using the legend of Charlemagne, an often-overlooked current in early medieval thought, An Empire of Memory looks at how the contours of the relationship between East and West moved across centuries, particularly in the period leading up to the First Crusade.

Apocalypse and Reform from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages provides the ideal introduction to what reformist apocalypticism meant for the formation of Medieval Europe, from the Fall of Rome to the twelfth century.

Apocalypse and Reform from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages provides the ideal introduction to what reformist apocalypticism meant for the formation of Medieval Europe, from the Fall of Rome to the twelfth century.

Using the legend of Charlemagne, an often-overlooked current in early medieval thought, An Empire of Memory looks at how the contours of the relationship between East and West moved across centuries, particularly in the period leading up to the First Crusade.