Download or read book Internal Colonization in Medieval Europe written by Felipe Fernández-Armesto and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around the year 1000 Rodulfus Glaber described France as being in the throes of a building boom. He may have been the first writer to perceive the early medieval period as a Dark Age that was ending to be replaced by a better world. This book discusses the ways in which this transformation took place.