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		<title>Summary &#124; The Early Middle Ages in Western Europe</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the fifth century the structure of Roman government in the West collapsed under the pressure of invasion and migration by Germanic tribes. Much of the Roman heritage, however, was preserved by the church and the barbarians' own reverence for Roman civilization.

The Franks founded the most lasting political entity to arise from the ruins of Roman power. In alliance with the papacy, the Frankish king Charles the Great (Charlemagne) sought to revive the Roman Empire in the West.]]></description>
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		<title>The Arts &#124; The Early Middle Ages in Western Europe</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like literature, the arts also gradually moved away from the standardized Roman forms toward newer achievements that introduced as the barbarians merged their arts with of the lands they settled. The early great churches of important imperial cities as Milan or Trier were still secular structures taken over from the secular of the Romans, but innovations were tried former Christian structures, especially baptisteries, detached from the main church. Some were square, others many-sided; rich mosaic decoration became common.]]></description>
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		<title>Vernacular Literature: Beowulf &#124; The Early Middle Ages in Western Europe</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Britain's distance from Rome and its failure to become completely Latinized during antiquity allowed it to profit greatly from the double wave of Latin Christian missionaries—Celtic and papal—and so provide the needed stimulus for the Carolingian Latin literary revival.]]></description>
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		<title>Latin Literature &#124; The Early Middle Ages in Western Europe</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was in Italy that the fight against the loss of the classical heritage was waged most vigorously and most successfully. Under Theodoric (r. 493-526), two distinguished intellectuals combated the general decline: Boethius and Cassiodorus.]]></description>
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		<title>The Civilization of the Early Middle Ages in the West &#124; The Early Middle Ages in Western Europe</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Judged by comparison with the achievements of Greek, Hellenistic, or Roman civilizations, or by those of the Byzantine and Muslim East, those of western Europe in these centuries may sometimes seem feeble or primitive. But this is what one would expect in a world where life was often too turbulent to allow much leisure for the exercise of creative skills.]]></description>
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		<title>Manorialism &#124; The Early Middle Ages in Western Europe</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[These complex arrangements directly involved only the governing class who fought on horseback as mounted knights and whose fiefs consisted of landed property known as manors or estates. Even if we include their dependents, the total would hardly reach 10 percent of the population of Europe. Most of the other 90 percent of the people worked the land.]]></description>
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		<title>Vassals and Lords &#124; The Early Middle Ages in Western Europe</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Feudal practices varied from place to place and developed and altered with the passage of time. Nonetheless, certain general conceptions were accepted almost everywhere. One of the most significant was that of a feudal contract. The lord owed something to the vassal, just as the vassal owed something to the lord. When they entered into their relationship, the vassal rendered formal homage to his lord; that is, he became the lord's "man." He also promised him aid and counsel.]]></description>
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		<title>Feudalism: The Rulers &#124; The Early Middle Ages in Western Europe</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[To these widely varying social and political combinations scholars give the name feudalism. Feudal institutions were the arrangements that made survival possible during the early Middle Ages. The arrangements were made between important people who were concerned with maintaining order, though the customs that evolved also applied to the masses of population. One of the most influential arrangements was the war-band (or Gefolge) of the early Germans (or the comitatus, as Tacitus called it in Latin).]]></description>
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		<title>Feudal Europe &#124; The Early Middle Ages in Western Europe</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is all very well to speak of relative anarchy before and after Charlemagne, but what was anarchy like and how were human relations governed? Did everyone just slaughter everyone else indiscriminately? What were the rules that enabled life to go on, however harshly?]]></description>
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		<title>Europe about 1000 &#124; The Early Middle Ages in Western Europe</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By about the year 1000 England was a centralized monarchy; France was nominally ruled by an elected king who was feebler than his great supporters; Germany was divided into duchies, one of which, Saxony, had asserted its supremacy and claimed the old imperial title; and Italy still remained anarchic, although the papacy had begun to revive.]]></description>
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