About the Author

Chris Wickham is Chichele Professor of Medieval History at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of All Souls College. His book Framing the Middle Ages, which was published in 2005, won the Wolfson Prize, the Deutscher Memorial Prize and the James Henry Breasted Prize of the American Historical Association. He taught for many years at the University of Birmingham and is a Fellow of the British Academy.

Reviews

A work of tremendous authority and breadth. With this book, as with Charlemagne's empire, one feels that an extraordinary range of things have been brought together
*Sunday Telegraph*

Intensely rewarding
*Spectator*

Almost every page is full of arresting details and insights ... and a sharp eye for a revealing anecdote, illuminating even the murkiest corners of the so-called Dark Ages
*Daily Telegraph*

The Penguin History of Europe series ... is one of contemporary publishing's great projects
*New Statesman*

With five volumes now out, the Penguin History of Europe series ... is shaping up to be the best general account available, superseding all previous ones
*Economist*