Wickham offers both a new conception of Europe's medieval period and a provocative revision of exactly how and why the Middle Ages matter. 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.
He provides illuminating vignettes that underscore how shifting social, economic, and political circumstances affected individual lives and international events. Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean 400800 is a 2005 history book by English historian Christopher Wickham at the University of Oxford. Tracking the entire sweep of the Middle Ages across Europe, Wickham focuses on important changes century by century, including such pivotal crises and moments as the fall of the western Roman Empire, Charlemagne's reforms, the feudal revolution, the challenge of heresy, the destruction of the Byzantine Empire, the rebuilding of late medieval states, and the appalling devastation of the Black Death. Yet distinguished historian Chris Wickham has taken up the challenge in this landmark book, and he succeeds in producing the most riveting account of medieval Europe in a generation. The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and hugely transformative period-one not easily chronicled within the scope of a few hundred pages. A spirited and thought-provoking history of the vast changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle Ages
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