L'impero e i barbari

It is a lengthy overview of the 1st millennium AD in Europe. This period is subject to a substantial controversy between the historians for the obvious reasons - not many written sources and those existing are rarely reliable. The most controversial point is the role of migrations in this period. Pe Leggi tutto

Once again Peter Heath has written an extraordinarily complex and nuanced account of Europe in the first millennium AD, a period when the modern foundations of European society were established. He focuses on migration and its role in transforming the Mediterranean-centered world of Late Antiquity i Leggi tutto

Peter Heather's book on the period from the decline of the Western Roman empire to the end of the first millennium is both revolutionary and conservative in its outlook, largely because he pushes to restore, albeit with far finer resolution and detail, the migration to our ideas of the 'Dark Ages.'

In “Empires and barbarians”, Peter Heather attempts to tackle two of the biggest questions in history of European continent. The first of those questions is how, in a course of millennia, Europe transformed from a territory equally divided between Roman empire and a multitude of Germanic tribes lack Leggi tutto

A thorough, educational and thought-provoking — if massive and occasionally overwhelming work about the "barbarian invasions" that wracked Europe for more than a half century, coinciding with the fall of Roman hegemony in the West, the rise of successor kingdoms, and then those kingdoms' own struggl Leggi tutto

I picked up Peter Heather's 2009 book simply because it was cheap on Kindle at one point. I'm now thinking I want to get a proper hard copy book. This is mostly a measure of how much I liked the book, but there are a number of good maps that I'd like a better look at too. The primary purpose of this Leggi tutto

The period between Late Antiquity and the High Middle Ages has always been one where there has been a wide degree of controversy because of the various political questions that result from the dramatic changes of that time.  How violent was the transition between Roman rule of Western Europe to the Leggi tutto