The birth of the West : Rome, Germany, France, and the creation of Europe in the tenth century / Paul Collins.
Title:
The birth of the West : Rome, Germany, France, and the creation of Europe in the tenth century / Paul Collins.
Author:
Collins, Paul, 1940-
ISBN:
9781610390132
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : PublicAffairs, [2013]
Physical Description:
ix, 484 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Contents:
The physical landscape of the tenth century -- Roman "harlots" : from the cadaver synod to the fall of Marozia -- The nadir of the papacy -- Enemies of Christians -- The dissention of kings -- Salvation from "that very savage people" -- Feudal France -- Muslims and Christians in Spain -- Anglo-Saxon England -- The Celtic lands : Ireland, Scotland, and Wales -- Liutprand of Cremona, cynic, diplomat, and stylist -- "That Greek woman" : Theophano, Otto II, and her mother-in-law -- Monks and nuns -- Ordinarylife in the tenth century -- Faith and church in the tenth century -- Gerbert, the magician of the millennium -- Otto III : a "new Rome"? -- The millennium.
Abstract:
A narrative history of the origins of Western civilization argues that Europe was transformed in the tenth century from a continent rife with violence and ignorance to a continent on the rise.
