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Franks, Northmen and Slavs - Identities and State Formation in Early Medieval Europe
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Franks, Northmen and Slavs - Identities and State Formation in Early Medieval EuropeFranks, Northmen and Slavs - Identities and State Formation in Early Medieval Europe

In recent decades, historians attempting to understand the transition from the world of late antiquity with its unitary imperial system to the medieval Europe of separate kingdoms have become increasingly concerned with the role of early medieval gentes, or peoples, in the end of the former and the constitution of the latter. Eleven specialists examine here the role of ethnic identity in the formation of medieval polities on the periphery of the Frankish world in the eighth through eleventh centuries.
 
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Tags: medieval, world, Europe, polities, periphery, Slavs, Franks
Fortune's Stroke
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Fortune's Stroke
Fortune's Stroke

by Eric Flint and David Drake

Link, the supercomputer from a future that should not exist, has used terror and gunpowder weapons to forge the Malwa Empire: harnessing the vast manpower of the Indian subcontinent and using the barbarian races of the periphery to bind the whole together. No power on Earth in the 6th century could stand against Link's evil.


 
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Tags: Fortunes, Stroke, periphery, whole, races