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In the end the Italian state could not hold the disparate forces together and Italy sprang apart. Access a growing selection of included Audible Originals, audiobooks, and podcasts. The real variations of early medieval Italian history came not in the histories of the Italian states, but in the different developments of the Italian regions, with all their contrasts-between city and country, mountain and plain, agriculture and pastoralism, landlord and tenant: regions kept apart by the difficult communications of a fairly mountainous country. Read more ©2016 Chris Wickham (P)2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Despite this, the structures of the Italian state persisted with considerable uniformity from the sixth to the ninth and tenth centuries, when they began to break apart under the pressure of other social forces. Wickham offers both a new conception of Europes medieval period and a provocative revision of exactly how and why the Middle Ages matter. Early medieval Italy was the victim of many invasions and had a long succession of different Germanic rulers: Ostrogoths, Lombards, Franks, Germans, as well as the provincial administrations of the various Byzantine enclaves in Italy. This book presents a picture of the history of Italy between 4, probably the six centuries least known in all Italian history. Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean, 400800.

Medieval europe by chris wickham