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Chapter 11 - Late Rome, Byzantium, and early medieval western Europe

from Part III - Divergent Trends among Established Regimes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2015

Andrew Monson
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New York University
Walter Scheidel
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Stanford University, California
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