"This book situates and reappraises Thorstein Veblen's famous Theory of the Leisure Class in the time and especially the place (Chicago) in which it was written"-- Provided by publisher.
In a work of splendid scholarship that reflects both a firm mastery of difficult sources and a keen intuition, one of Britain's foremost medievalists tells the story of the Christianization of Europe...
The Barbarians Speak re-creates the story of Europe's indigenous people who were nearly stricken from historical memory even as they adopted and transformed aspects of Roman culture. The Celts and...