Texts in Context: In the Year of Our Lord
The High Middle Ages are almost upon us. With them come two movements that will transfigure Europe and, eventually, the globe.
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Texts in Context: 1066 and All That
England as we know it, the England of the High Middle Ages and thereafter, finally attains recognizable shape.
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Texts in Context: The Great Estrangement
The Early Middle Ages faintly, but insistently, filed away at the integrity of Christendom; as they drew to a close, it gave way with a snap.
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Texts in Context: Islamic Civilization in the Early Middle Ages
What became of the Muslim invaders Charles Martel trounced? What were they up to in the 10th century? Nothing; just throwing a golden age.
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Texts in Context: Varangians and Vinlanders
In the tenth century, northern Europe (with exceptions and false starts) is seen at last to enter the circle of post-Classical civilization.
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Texts in Context: The Sons of Midgard
The interwoven tales of the North wind in strange directions; their knots and curls can hardly ever be foreseen.
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Texts in Context: The Seven Crowns of Englalond
If there is one thing we know about England during the age of the Heptarchy, it’s that it isn’t that, it’s something else.
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Texts in Context: The Realignment of the Eight Century
The Roman Empire—not as a concrete state, but as an idea—was about to take on quite a different shape.
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Texts in Context: An Outline of Islam
In light of the role it will play in subsequent history (especially its importance in intellectual history), let’s take a moment to dig more deeply into Islam.
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Texts in Context: The Surrender
Texts in Context:The Surrender By Gabriel Blanchard Into the established dichotomies of the Græco-Roman West and the Syro-Persian East, suddenly, out of the south, something new leapt forth
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