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Exhibit: Roman Empire to Breakup
Book post: Chris Wickham on the weight of Rome's empire
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Michael G. Heller
Chris Wickham on Medieval Europe
Introductory outline of the parameters of society in the middle ages
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MICHAEL G. HELLER
'Social Memory', by Chris Wickham & James Fentress
A Darwinian process of selectivity, 'oikotypical' history with social purpose, historians with political purpose, and ghosts in the machine
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Michael G. Heller
Chris Wickham, Rome's western successors 500–750
From tax to land, declining complexity, public power legitimacy, solidly governed world
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MICHAEL G. HELLER
Reshaping western Europe 1000–1150, by Chris Wickham
‘You are mine to do my will’, the Roman public world now replaced by cellular structure of de facto personal powers
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Michael G. Heller
Chris Wickham, Europe’s Long Economic Boom 950–1300
Population, peasants, social mobility/differentiation, innovation in lordship, community resistance, money, urbanisation, markets, banking…
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Michael G. Heller
Wickham, Sleepwalking into a New World
Emergence of Italian City Communes in the Twelfth Century..
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Michael G. Heller
Political-religious evolutions 800-1000 CE: in ‘Medieval Europe’, by Chris Wickham
Handy snapshots: post-Roman public power, weak rulership in small units, and common trends
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Michael G. Heller
Wickham, Society in the Early Middle Ages
Public power that for the first time owed nothing to the Roman past..
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Michael G. Heller
Costambeys et al., The Carolingian world
The Dawn of the Carolingian Age, scope and limitations
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Michael G. Heller
Rank over status
Introduction to medieval Type 7
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Michael G. Heller
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