The Inheritance of Rome is Chris Wickham's history of Europe and the Mediterranean from the last century of the western Roman empire to the year 1000. First published in 2009 in Britain and the United States (the American edition carried the subtitle Illuminating the Dark Ages, 400–1000), it runs to about 650 pages and is written for general readers by one of the leading specialists in the period.
Chris Wickham · AuthorThe Inheritance of Rome: A History of Europe from 400 to 1000
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Chris Wickham
About Chris Wickham
Chris Wickham (born 1950) is a British historian of early medieval Europe and a Fellow of the British Academy. He taught for many years at the University of Birmingham and in 2005 became Chichele Professor of Medieval History at the University of Oxford and a fellow of All Souls College, retiring from the chair in 2016. A specialist in early medieval Italy and in the comparative social and economic history of the post-Roman world, he is best known for Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean, 400–800 (2005), which won the Wolfson History Prize. His later books include Medieval Europe (2016) and The Donkey and the Boat (2023), a study of the medieval Mediterranean economy.