The collapse of the early medieval European kingdoms (8th-9th centuries)

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Iñaki Martín Viso (ed.)

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This monographic section contains some partial approaches to the problem of the collapse of early medieval kingdoms during 8th and 9th centuries. Different cases of study are analysed: the Visigothic kingdom and Northwestern Iberia, the Lombard kingdom, Mercia, the Post-Carolingian evolution in a regional scale and the Great Moravia. The understanding of early medieval polities and their fluidity is the aim of all papers. The frequent breakdown of the kingdoms was not a proof of a supposed fragility, if not a usual solution to sociopolitical stress. Sometimes, the end of the kingdoms involved a decline of socio-political complexity, so the theoretical framework of the study of collapse could be useful.

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Martín Viso (ed.)Iñaki. 2016. The Collapse of the Early Medieval European Kingdoms (8th-9th Centuries). Reti Medievali Rivista 17 (2), 183-381. https://doi.org/10.6092/1593-2214/529.
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