Bøker av Roger Collins

The Christian Culture of Islamic Spain is an enquiry into how and why Christian culture survived in medieval Spain in areas under Islamic rule, why it eventually disappeared there and how knowledge of it was recovered from the sixteenth century onwards.

A new account of the most important period in the history of Europe between the end of the Roman Empire and the Italian Renaissance: the reign of Charlemagne (768-814).

Deals with the socio-cultural and legal history of Spain, notably the Basque provinces in the period 500 - 900, from the time of the Visigoths through the period of the Arab conquest, up to the time of Charlemagne.

A complete history of the Papacy - one of the most enduring and influential of all human institutions.

In this classic textbook history of early medieval Europe, Roger Collins provides a succinct account of the centuries during which Europe changed from being an abstract geographical expression to a new culturally coherent, if politically divided, entity.

Charlemagne remains one of the most compelling figures in European history. In this portrait of the monarch and his achievements, Roger Collins profiles this powerful ruler of Western Europe between the end of the Roman Empire and the Italian Renaissance.