Were the Dark Ages truly the lost centuries they are so often portrayed as? How could a world so profoundly shaped by Rome and encompassing such remarkable societies as the Byzantine, Carolingian, and Ottonian empires by anything other than central to the development of Europe? In The Inheritance of Rome historian Chris Wickham defies the conventional view of the time between AD 400-1000 with a work of accessible scholarship. 651 pages, softcover.
