About the book: 2008 / In this volume, E. Gibbon continues to reconstruct a large-scale canvas of European history of the 7th-11th centuries, showing those events and historical trends that determined the further development of international relations and the internal history of European states for the next few hundred years - the Arab conquests, the Crusades, the Norman raids on Southern Europe and the formation of the Norman kingdom there, the appearance of the Seljuk Turks on the historical arena. He pays special attention to the history of the Slavs and Rus'.