U dobrom stanju The Birth of the Middle Ages Henry St. Lawrence Beaufort Moss The Folio Society Moss`s work was first published in 1935, and re-issued in 1963. This Folio Society edition uses the 1963 text, with maps and color photos of works of art and architecture. Red decorated covers. The `Dark Ages` - roughly from the decline of the Roman Empire in the fifth century to Charlemagne - is a misnomer. Yes, the barbarians dismembered the Western Roman Empire and learning and culture declined. Except for the Papacy and the Catholic Church, the universal institutions withered away. But Roman culture never entirely disappeared. Rather, it merged harmoniously (and often violently) with the Teutonic culture of the ruling barbarian tribes. For three centuries, Europe experienced not so much a collapse as a transformation, which culminated in the person and empire of Charlemagne. British historian H. St. L. B. Moss, although writing from a secular and materialistic point of view, wrote an excellent summary of this important period of European history, which he dates from the death of Emperor Theodosius the Great in 395 A.D. to the death of Charlemagne in 814 A.D. Moss touches upon every important aspect of this transformation: law, politics, religion, learning, language, literature, ethnic changes, social institutions, although he focuses more on cultural changes than political or religious ones. An exception to this is Byzantium, or the Eastern Roman Empire, which looms large in his narrative. srednji vek, karlo veliki, teodosije, rimsko carstvo, varvari