Books by Chris Wickham

I will not have time to read Chris Wickham’s massive tome The Donkey & the Boat: Reinterpreting the Mediterranean Economy, 950-1180 , but surely it is worthy of note and it appears to be a major achievement.

I read only a fragment of Chris Wickham’s Medieval Europe , but found it well-written, to the point, and illuminating for both the specialist and general reader.

What can I say?  I have to count this tome as one of the best history books I have read, ever.  The author is Chris Wickham and the subtitle is A History of Europe from 400 to 1000 .  The author states that this is a book written “without hindsight” so the focus is not on how early medieval times were a precursor of this, that, or the other.  In addition to its all-around stunningness, it has the following: