Encyclopedia of Barbarian Europe: Society in Transformation

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This deceptively slim volume belies the huge amount of scholarship it contains. The Encyclopedia of Barbarian Europe details the period from the end of the Roman Empire to the year AD1000. Known commonly as the Dark Ages, this is an age that can be overlooked, standing between the glamour of Roman times and the true beginning of the Middle Ages. Until recently the received wisdom was that this period was one of barbarity and ignorance. In this book Michael Frassetto, religion...