by Pierre Riché (Author), Jo Ann McNamara (Editor), Jo Ann McNamara (Translator)
In the growth of towns and the revival of commerce, historians have seen the development of a bourgeois and capitalist Europe, but Pierre Riché reminds us that Carolingians saw a world of forest and wasteland, in which scattered castles and villages were
Author Biography
Pierre Riche is Professor Emeritus of Medieval History at the University of Paris X (Nanterre) and Former Director of the Center for Research in Late Antiquity and the High Middle Ages. He is the author of The Carolingians: A Family Who Forged Europe, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
Number of Pages: 352
Dimensions: 1.08 x 8.98 x 6.02 IN
Publication Date: February 01, 1988