Framing the Early Middle Ages explained

Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean 400–800
Author:	Christopher Wickham
Subject:	Medieval studies
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Pub Date:	8 December 2005
Media Type:	Print
Pages:	1,018 pp (hardcover)
Isbn:	978-0-1992-6449-0

Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean 400–800 is a 2005 history book by English historian Christopher Wickham at the University of Oxford. It is a broad history of the period between the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the transition to the Middle Ages, often called Late Antiquity.

The book won the 2005 Wolfson History Prize, the 2006 Deutscher Memorial Prize, and the 2006 James Henry Breasted Prize from the American Historical Association.

According to Chris Wickham's website,^[1] the book will "lead into a general study of the early middle ages for Penguin books." This book, titled The Inheritance of Rome: A History of Europe from 400 to 1000, was published on March 24, 2009.^[2]

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Reviews

Costambeys . Marios . Review . . 59 . 2 . 417–419 . 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2006.00351_17.x . May 2006 .
Harman . Chris . Review . . 109 . February 2006 .
Hines . John . Review . . 50 . 1 . 401–404 . 10.1179/174581706x153507 . November 2006 .
Web site: Roach . Andrew . Reviews in history: Book review . history.ac.uk . The Institute of Historical Research . 2007 .
Sarris . Peter . Continuity and Discontinuity in the Post-Roman Economy . Journal of Agrarian Change . 6 . 3 . 400–413 . 10.1111/j.1471-0366.2006.00127.x . July 2006 .
News: Schwarz . Benjamin . Review . . . 2007-03-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070929123615/http://www.powells.com/review/2006_09_12.html . 2007-09-29 . dead .
Shaw . Brent D. . Brent Shaw . After Rome: Transformations of the Early Mediterranean World . . II . 51 . 89–114 . New Left Review . May–June 2008 .