The Birth of Europe as a Eurasian Phenomenon
R. I. Moore
Although they still differ considerably in their willingness to acknowledge it, specialists the history of north-western Europe eleventh and twelfth centuries CE are increasingly treating it as that emergence a new civilization what had previously been peripheral region Mediterranean-based classical west, rather than continuation or revival itself. In this light Europe, Latin Christendom saw itself, offers number striking resemblances developments which Lieberman discusses. The most dynamic regions Europe—north-western France, Flanders lowland England, north-eastern Spain, northern Italy, southern Italy Sicily—were all peripheral, though various senses, both long-defunct its direct successors, Byzantine Abbasid Empires, transitional much more loosely based ninth-and tenth-century empires Franks Saxons (Ottonians). To one might add by end century remaining rimlands Eurasian continent purely geographical sense—Scandinavia, including Iceland, coast Baltic areas dominated rivers drained into it—were developing very rapidly indeed.
Modern Asian Studies