Originally published in 1956, A History of Early Medieval Europe traces the changes that took place in Europe between the fifth and tenth centuries, a time of social and political upheaval, when the organization of the Roman Empire, with its single emperor, army and civil service, was replaced by the divided Europe of the Germanic kingdom in the west and the Byzantine empire in the east.
1. The Roman Heritage in 476
2. The Barbarian Movements and Settlements
3. The Ostrogoths in Italy
4. The Franks
5. The Vandals
6. The Visigoths
7. Economic Change
8. The Formation of the Eastern Empire
9. East Roman Imperial Policy from Zeno to Justinian (474-565)
10. The Church from the Fifth to the Eighth Century
11. Islam: Origins and Conquests
12. The Eastern Empire from Justinian to the Iconoclasts: The Heraclians
13. The Greco-Roman and Christian Heritage
14. The Lombards in Italy
15. The Later Merovingians
16. Charles Martel and Pepin the Short
17. The Carolingian Political Scene
18. The Carolingian Conquests
19. The Carolingian Conquests: Continued
20. The Christian Empire
21. The Byzantine Empire from 711 to 912: The Isaurian Emperors, the Amorians and the Rise of the Macedonian Dynasty
22. The Divisions of the Carolingian Empire 814-843
23. The Carolingian Empire from 843 till the Death of Charles the Fat, 888
24. Celts and Scandinavians
25. The Slavs
26. The Carolingian Renaissance: Schools and Scholars
27. The Carolingian Renaissance: The Contribution to Knowledge
28. The End of the Carolingian Empire
Chronological Lists
Index
Biography
Deanesly, Margaret