Chris Wickham
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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 en la sociedad y la economía de la Europa altomedieval, hasta cuestiones igualmente importantes en la historia cultural, como la naturaleza de la memoria histórica y cómo funcionan los chismes en las sociedades medievales (y contemporáneas)....
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Chris Wickham is professor emeritus of medieval history at the University of Oxford.
A bold new history of the rise of the medieval Italian commune
Amid the disintegration of the Kingdom of Italy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, a new form of collective government-the commune-arose in the cities of northern and central Italy. Sleepwalking into a New World takes a bold new look at how these autonomous city-states came about, and fundamentally...
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"The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and hugely transformative period--one not easily chronicled within the scope of a few hundred pages. Yet distinguished historian Chris Wickham has taken up the challenge in this landmark book, and he succeeds in producing the most riveting account of medieval Europe in a generation. Tracking the entire sweep of the Middle Ages across Europe, Wickham focuses...
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Penguin history of Europe volume 2
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Prizewinning historian Chris Wickham defies the conventional view of the Dark Ages in European history with a work of remarkable scope and rigorous yet accessible scholarship. Drawing on a wealth of new material and featuring a thoughtful synthesis of historical and archaeological approaches, Wickham argues that these centuries were critical in the formulation of European identity. Far from being a middle period between more significant epochs, this...
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