This unique textbook introduces undergraduate students to medieval historiography, providing an entry point for the dense scholarship on the period. Volume I covers the post-Roman world, from 450 to 1050.

Stephen Mossman is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Manchester

How to use this book: a guide for students - Stephen Mossman
1 The transformation of the Roman world, c. 450-c. 550 - Craig H. Caldwell III
2 The Successor States, 550-750 - Paul Fouracre
3 The Carolingian moment - Janet L. Nelson
4 Translatio imperii: Ottonian Germany - T. J. H. McCarthy
5 Feudal revolution? Transformations around the year 1000 - Paul Fouracre
6 Vikings and the 'age of iron' in the North Sea - Charles Insley
7 Early medieval Spain, 800-1100: the Christian kingdoms and al-Andalus - Robert Portass
8 England and the Atlantic Archipelago from Alfred to the Norman Conquest - Charles Insley
9 The Norman world, c. 1000-c. 1100 - Paul Oldfield
Index