As regular readers will know, my attempts at blogging my way chapter by chapter through Chris Wickham's monumental Framing the Early Middle Ages got … more
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Framing the Clerical Cosmos 1: the view on the ground
@ 2012-04-25 – 08:17:33
[ ... ] akin to what Chris Wickham has done for earlier medieval secular societies. I'll go back to discussing Bernard's example of how we might ... more -
Framing the Early Middle Ages 6: Peasants, patterns and prosperity
@ 2011-06-13 – 08:20:47
As long-term readers of this blog will know, my attempts to read and blog my way through Chris Wickham's monumental book Framing the Early Middle Ages … more -
Masculinity and impressing the plebs
@ 2011-01-15 – 20:28:28
I am back once again to wrestling with Chris Wickham's fascinating but huge Framing the Early Middle Ages, but have yet again got distracted from thinking … more -
Framing the Early Middle Ages 5: portraits of peasants
@ 2010-03-14 – 13:40:04
(This is part of a series blogging about Chris Wickham’s book Framing the early Middle Ages) In Part III of Framing the Early Middle Ages Chris moves … more -
Framing the Early Middle Ages 4: the fall and rise of Northern states
@ 2010-01-02 – 23:48:34
(For previous posts discussing Chris Wickham’s Framing the Early Middle Ages, see here, here and here). In Chapter 6 of Framing the Early Middle Ages, … more -
Framing the Early Middle Ages 3: the passage from feudalism to feudalism
@ 2009-12-28 – 09:19:53
Chapter 5 of Chris Wickham’s Framing the Early Middle Ages (which I am blogging chapter by chapter) is on ‘Managing the land’ and sits somewhat uneasily … more -
Framing the Early Middle Ages 2: comparing aristocracies
@ 2009-12-23 – 23:17:08
(This is the second in a series of posts exploring the arguments of Chris Wickham’s Framing the Early Middle Ages chapter by chapter.) Chris Wickham’s … more -
Framing the Early Middle Ages 1: tax and the barbarians
@ 2009-12-18 – 23:31:41
I got Chris Wickham’s Framing the Early Middle Ages soon after it was published in 2005, but there’s a lot of it I still haven’t read, because it’s big … more -
Medieval archaeology and the Campaign for Socio-Economic History
@ 2008-10-29 – 23:39:10
Before Chris Wickham’s lecture on ‘Problems with the dialogue between medieval history and medieval archaeology’ to the joint seminars of the Institute … more
