Life and Thought in the Early Middle Ages

The period of the early Middle Ages - from the fourth to the eleventh centuriesa?used to be commonly called the dark ages. Now that term has been discarded by scholars, who reject its implications as they recognize increasingly, the historical importance of the period. In this volume eight historians, in as many essays, discuss various aspects of the life and thought which prevailed during the centuries which extended from the time of the estab.