Chapter 8 Review: Suggested References

Donner’s book offers insight on Islam’s origins. Herrin gives a dazzling overview of Byzantine history. Smith’s and Wickham’s books are essential for understanding the early medieval West.

*Bede. A History of the English Church and People. Trans. Leo Sherley-Price. 1991.

Berkey, Jonathan P. The Formation of Islam: Religion and Society in the Near East, 600–1800. 2003.

*Byzantine Sourcebook: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1c.html

Cameron, Averil. The Byzantines. 2006.

Donner, Fred McGraw. Muhammad and the Believers: At the Origins of Islam. 2010.

*Geanakoplos, Deno John, ed. and trans. Byzantium: Church, Society, and Civilization Seen through Contemporary Eyes. 1984.

Geary, Patrick. Before France and Germany: The Creation and Transformation of the Merovingian World. 1988.

*Gregory of Tours. The History of the Franks. Trans. Lewis Thorpe. 1976.

Haldon, J. F. Byzantium in the Seventh Century: The Transformation of a Culture. 1990.

Herrin, Judith. Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire. 2007.

*Islamic Sourcebook: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/islam/islamsbook.html

Kennedy, Hugh. The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates: The Islamic Near East from the Sixth to the Eleventh Century. 2nd ed. 2004.

Smith, Julia M. H. Europe after Rome: A New Cultural History 500–1000. 2005.

Whittow, Mark. The Making of Byzantium, 600–1025. 1996.

Wickham, Chris. Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean, 400–800. 2005.