Northwest Europe in the Early Middle Ages, c.AD 600-1150

Christopher Loveluck''s study explores the transformation of Northwest Europe (primarily Britain, France and Belgium) from the era of the first post-Roman ''European Union'' under the Carolingian Frankish kings to the so-called ''feudal'' age, between c.AD 600 and 1150. During these centuries radical changes occurred in the organisation of the rural world. Towns and complex communities of artisans...