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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 909
EAN: 9780393335392
Edition: Reprint
ISBN: 0393335399
Label: W.W. Norton & Co.
Manufacturer: W.W. Norton & Co.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: August 24, 2009
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Studio: W.W. Norton & Co.
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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 worldâs leading archaeologists, surveys the archaeological record to demonstrate that the Dark Ages were not dark at all. The kingdoms of Christendom that emerged starting in the ninth century sprang from a robust, previously little-known European culture, albeit one that left behind few written texts. 24 illustrations.
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"Barbarians to Angels" is on the ROROTOKO list of cutting-edge intellectual nonfiction. Professor Wells's book interview ran here as cover feature on October 28, 2009.
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Peter Wells once again gives us a highly readable account of "Dark Age" peoples, showing that the age wasn't as dark as supposed. His writing style is engaging and enjoyable. His treatment of the subject is excellent for the average reader of history.
Mr. Wells shows that civilized life really didn't end when Rome "fell". It continued to flourish and took off in new directions, influenced by people other than the Greeks and Romans. Cities didn't die, learning wasn't extinguished and ... Read More
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Peter S. Wells, professor of anthropology at the University of Minnesota, and author of The Battle That Shaped Rome and Barbarians Speak, takes on a bold new subject as he attempts to prove that the so called "Dark Ages" really weren't that bad at all, but were a time for important trading, the long-term migration of different peoples, and that most of what we consider to know about the period from the fall of Rome in approximately 410 to the takeover of England by William the Conqueror in 1066 is ... Read More
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Due to the lack of a written record, it has been assumed that the decline in Roman civilization meant a cultural descent. One result is that the name the "Dark Ages" was given to this period with very little understanding of what happened in them.
With photos and drawings showing unearthed artifacts and maps showing the wide dispersion of where they have been found, Wells makes the case for a lively culture with active trade in this period. Most striking to me was the mimimal evidence ... Read More
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How very lame. BtA is, at best, lightweight history designed to introduce the utterly clueless to the post-Roman, pre-Middle Ages period. It often reads more like a travel guide than a work of history. This is not for the scholarly, or even the amateur, historian. This book seems to be targeting vapid college freshmen who got stuck taking a Western Civ. course at 9:00 a.m. and need an idiot's guide to history. (Man, am I glad I got this for free; I would have been seriously hacked-off if I would have ... Read More
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