This book critically evaluates the prevailing idea that north-west European migration was central to the transformation from post-Roman to 'Anglo-Saxon' society in Britain, and explores the increasing evidence for more evolutionary change.
Tom Shippey challenges the view that Beowulf is a fantasy and argues that using the poem as a starting point, historical, archaeological, and legendary sources can provide a plausible and consistent history of the North in the fifth and sixth centuries.
Covering the history and cultural heritage of Rome from ancient through early modern times, this book examines the Eternal City through... Læs mere
This book reinterprets the place of slavery in the transformation of the Roman Mediterranean into a world of medieval civilizations.
This book looks afresh at a key stage in Japan’s global transformation from medieval to early modern.
Prussia, Lithuania, and Latvia were among the last places in Europe to be Christianized. Focusing on the deities, sacred places, and sacred rites of the Balts, this book introduces the religious world of some of Europe’s last pagan peoples.
A growing number of historians have realized that the terms “Byzantium” and “the Byzantines” distort the reality and identity of the society being studied. Anthony Kaldellis proposes a name change for the field of Byzantine Studies.