The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change 950 - 1350

Winner of the Wolfson Literary Award for HistoryA wave of internal conquest, settlement and economic growth took place in Europe during the High Middle Ages, which transformed it from a world of small separate communities into a network of powerful kingdoms with distinctive cultures. In this compelling and provocative book Robert Bartlett vividly shows how Europe was itself a product of colonisation, as much as is was later a coloniser, and what this did to shape the continent and the world today.