![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His broader syntheses of European medieval history have also been influential his Framing the Early Middle Ages (2005) won a number of prestigious awards, including the Wolfson History Prize, the Deutscher Memorial Prize, and the AHA's James Henry Breasted Prize. Wickham's previous work has primarily concentrated on medieval Italy up to the end of the thirteenth century. This widespread engagement is what marks the end of the period, not "crisis, or anxiety, or the Renaissance, or a sense that the continent was, somehow, waiting for the Reformation and European global conquest" (257). ![]() Instead, he has written an account that ultimately argues for both structural continuity and change leading up to the highly politically-engaged nature of the late Middle Ages. A spirited and thought-provoking history of the vast changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle AgesThe millennium between the. Chris Wickham, Chichele Professor of Medieval History at Oxford, here offers a broad, large-scale interpretation of medieval Europe that eschews both the search for origins and the impulse to demarcate chronological boundaries. Scholarly interpretations of the European Middle Ages often tend towards grand narratives that search for distinct breaking points-becoming preoccupied with periodization-or for the origins of nations and national identities. ![]()
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