Post-Roman unity, disintegration and renewal
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• Bubonic plague, soil erosion, climatic change earthquakes decisive in forming the dark ages in the East 0 not even 6^th century sequence of croip failures, plagues, wars etc terminated prosperity of Oriens
• 7^th and 8^th century Mediterranean by no means uniform – power fro  North Sea channel area and from Syria.
• 8^th century upward climb – simultaneous revival of east and west, north and south in fortunes of Christendom – widespread rise in population and production – basis for Charlemagne’s power – silver production of Khorasan weak.
• Collapse urban life, politics, religion, economics, collapse seems less marked -  slower, many regions transformation without need for reconstruction – Islamic seems less catastrophic – renewal as religious and mercantile transmitters. M Passed the stuff of civilisation, tangible and intangible across new boundaries of politics and culture – across ancient limits between Romania and barbaricum, between town and country.

Other Notes in this Category

1. Factors Transforming the city
2. Post-Roman unity, disintegration and renewal
3. Regional survey of urban change ad survivals
4. The 5^th century and after: the East
5. The ancient city: a centre of administration and a way of life
6. The Fifth Century and After: the West
7. The third-century crisis and the inscriptions of Aphrodisias
8. The transformation of classical cities and the Pirenne debate
9. Types of Post-Roman City
10. Urban Survival and the role of the middleman
11. Why and when did the ancient cities end?

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