Rafael Altamira: 2 books
The Cambridge Medieval History - Book VI
Western Europe in the Dark Ages
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
AT the accession of Clovis, who succeeded his father Childeric about the year 481, the Salian Franks had advanced as far as the Somme. Between the Somme and the Loire the suzerainty of the Roman Empire was still maintained. The various Gallo-Roman cities preserved a certain independence, while a...
The Cambridge Medieval History - Book XII
The Viking Invasions, the Kingdom of England, and the Western Caliphate
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
THE term Viking is a derivative of the Old Norse Vik, a creek, bay or fiord, and means one who haunts such an opening and uses it as a base whence raids may be made on the surrounding country. The word is now commonly applied to those Norsemen, Danes and Swedes who harried Europe from the eighth to...