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b'Colin Marshall talks to Chris Wickham, Chichele Professor of Medieval\\nHistory at Oxford University, Fellow of All Souls College and author of\\nThe Inheritance of Rome: A History of Europe from 400 to 1000,\\nthe latest in Penguin\\u2019s sprawling History of Europe series. Wickham\\nintegrates textual and architectual evidence to craft a new,\\nfascinatingly detailed historical experience of the era beginning at\\nthe decline of the Roman Empire and ending at the rise of European\\nnations as we know them today. Eschewing both teleology and grand\\nnarratives, Wickham presents the Middle Ages not as a mere stepping\\nstone to modernity but as a fascinating period in and of itself.'