In this thought-provoking work, Costantino Battini challenges the idea that the so-called 'barbarian' centuries were a time of cultural decline. Instead, he argues that they were a period of intellectual ferment and vigorous creativity that laid the foundations for the Renaissance. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources and engaging with the latest scholarship, Battini offers a compelling new vision of this pivotal era in European history.

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