Peter S. Wells

Barbarians to Angels: The Dark Ages Reconsidered

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A rich and surprising look at the robust European culture that thrived after the collapse of Rome.The barbarians who destroyed the glory that was Rome demolished civilization along with it, and for the next four centuries the peasants and artisans of Europe barely held on. Random violence, mass migration, disease, and starvation were the only ways of life. This is the picture of the Dark Ages that most historians promote. But archaeology tells a different story. Peter Wells, one of the world's leading archaeologists, surveys the archaeological record to demonstrate that the Dark Ages were not dark at all. The kingdoms of Christendom that emer… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-393-06937-2
EAN: 9780393069372
Produktnummer: 34245770
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Seitenangabe: 256 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'185 KB
Abbildungen: 24 illustrations

Über den Autor

Peter S. Wells is professor of archaeology at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of The Battle That Stopped Rome and The Barbarians Speak. He lives in St. Paul.