Download or read book Early Middle Ages, 500-1000 written by Robert Brentano and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning the years 500 to 1000 A.D., this volume illustrates the conflict between brutality and civilization that seemed to characterize the period so often called—not improperly—the "Dark Ages." Islam and Byzantium, as much as Western Europe, figure in the twenty-two chapters of documents offered in this book, part of the ten-volume series, "Sources of Western Civilization."