A Companion to the Global Early Middle Ages

The present volume, therefore, is exceptionally welcome in that it brings together research by scholars with specialities in a very
wide range of geo-political contexts and academic traditions. The decision by Erik Hermans, the editor of this volume, to limit its
scope to the relatively brief period of c. 600 AD to c. 900 AD, has also proven quite fortuitous in that many of the essays provide
overlapping coverage of the same questions and phenomena, but from different geo-political perspectives.[...]
Overall, this is an exceptionally valuable volume, which will be of use to scholars across a wide sweep of fields. Many of the individual essays also will provide an easily accessible entrée to the political histories of non-western societies to graduate and even undergraduate students. ~David S. Bachrach, Francia recensio: Mittelalter – Moyen Âge (500– 1500), 4 (2020)