Abstract
The processes that led to the cultural realignments of the seventh and eighth centuries were by no means exclusively negative ones. One of the most striking features of the second half of this period in particular was the way in which the former physical and intellectual boundaries of the Roman world came to be superseded. The frontiers of the Empire had represented the limits of the civilised world as far as its inhabitants were concerned, and those who lived beyond them were of little or no interest, other than as a periodic menace to good order and peace. There was no sense in which it was felt necessary to try to export the benefits of Roman civilisation to such ‘barbarians’.
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Collins, R. (1991). Monks and missionaries. In: Early Medieval Europe 300–1000. Macmillan History of Europe. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21290-3_14
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