Crisis, continuity and transformation in the making of early Medieval Western Europe (up to the 8th C.)
INTRODUCTION The fall of antiquity and the making of early medieval Europe is mainly seen and analysed on the basis of structural differences between the East and West in Europe. The Arab conquest finally marked the end of Antiquity. The 8 th century western Europe though with its diversity were cemented together by profound resemblances giving birth to feudalism and subsequently to Modern Europe. Indeed, there were a lot of elements of crisis after the fall of antiquity, however Europe was never separated from economic prosperity and some kind of it always existed, inherited from Ancient Rome. The period of middle ages in the beginning is seen to be in a phase of crisis with slowly accommodating fusion of both elements from that of outsiders, the so called barbarians and the insiders, the Romans. The intermixture of both is seen to produce some distinct transformation finally changing even the basic mode of production, i.e, from the slave owned to the feudalistic one. T