Daily life in the world of Charlemagne : with expanded footnotes
Pierre Riché|Jo Ann McNamara
In the growth of towns and revival commerce, historians have seen development a bourgeois capitalist Europe, but Pierre Riche reminds us that Carolingians saw world forest wasteland, in which scattered castles villages were outposts against savagery nature, bands outlaws, myriad pagan superstitions. Daily Life World Charlemagne gives vivid deeply textured picture fear insecurity drove people, great humble alike, to draw together with one another, their stronger neighbors, God His saints, search protection sustenance. makes extensive use modern social history techniques tools new studies on nutrition, disease, demography, climatology, as well art archaeology, comprehend Carolingian mentality reconstruct material culture early European world.
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