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Pierre Riché; trans. John J. Contreni.
Education and Culture in the Barbarian West, Sixth through Eighth Centuries.
Published: Columbia, SC: South Carolina U.P., 1976 (trans. from the French 3rd edn., 1962).
ISBN 087249330X.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printer: Heritage Printers Inc., Charlotte, NC.
Size: 158x234x45mm.
Page count: xxxvii,559pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: the dustjacket on this copy is rather ragged and faded, and rather grubby; spine sagging under the weight of the pages; page edges rather grubby, the top edge speckled, though this looks part of the manufacture; text appears to be free of marking.

This item £35.00
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(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[ACLS paperback in print at $89.00]
Weight without packaging: 1188g.

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Contents: Survival of the antique school; Barbarians & antique culture at beginning of 6th c.; Christians & the antique school at beginning of 6th c.; first Christian schools at beginning of 6th c.; Education & culture in Byzantine Italy; Education of laymen in Gaul & Spain; Education of clerics & monks in Gaul & Spain; New elements of the 7th c.; Renaissances — end of 7th c. to middle of 8th c.; Methods of Christian education in 7th & 8th cc.

Foreword: Richard E. Sullivan
Notes: at foot of page
Tables: no
Illustrations: monochrome frontispiece
Maps & plans: 16
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 16pp
Indexes: Persons; Places & subjects.

See also | History of education | Late Antiquity | Barbarians |
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