In Dark Age Economics: a new audit, Richard Hodges reviews and enlarges upon the debate that continues since his ground-breaking Dark Age Economics: the origins of towns and trade was first published. This book pays special attention is given to new archaeological evidence for managing agrarian economies and how this shaped the evolution of the earliest medieval urban communities.Ranging across western Europe, with an emphasis upon the role of the Church as an agent of change, the author advances a new thesis about the shift from the consumption economies of Antiquity to the emphasis on production in the Middle Ages.

Dark Age Economics : The Origins of towns and trade AD 600 - 1000

Politics & Social Sciences

Richard Hodges

Archaeology

St.Martin's Press

World of Language 7 Spelling Connection Activity Book

Silver-Burdett

Muhammad, Charlemagne and the Origins of Europe: Archaeology and the Pirenne Thesis

Gerald Duckworth Co Ltd

Beginning in 1981, Richard Hodges supervised the excavation of the Benedictine monastery of San Vincenzo al Volturno, one of the great centers of Dark Age Europe, situated in spectacular mountain country in central Italy. The existence of the monastery has long been known from a twelfth-century illuminated manuscript, and the excavations threw vivid light on its epic history. This richly illustrated book tells of the discoveries made by Hodges's team, with the Samnite and Roman origins of the site charted in detail and the magnificence of the monastery's early medieval period fully elaborated. Light in the Dark Ages traces the history of San Vincenzo from the monastery's spectacular rise as a result of Charlemagne's patronage to its cataclysmic sack by Arab marauders in 881, demonstrating the relation between the treasures unearthed and their political context.

Light in the Dark Ages

Cornell Univ+press

<p>This is an illustrated study of towns and trade in the age of Charlemagne, in the <i>Debates in Archaeology</i> series, which analyses urban continuity and discontinuity in Europe during the Dark Ages. It examines the important continuing discussion of the rebirth of urbanism in Carolingian Europe. Drawing upon new archaeological evidence from southern and northern Europe, Richard Hodges looks at the end of towns in Roman antiquity, the phenomenon of the Dark Age emporium, and the hotly disputed mechanisms which led to the inception of market towns during the age of Charlemagne. He focusses particularly on recently excavated evidence from the Mediterranean, as well as from England.</p>

Towns and Trade in the Age of Charlemagne (Debates in Archaeology)

History

Europe

Bloomsbury Academic

Walks in the Cotswolds (A Spurbooks footpath guide)

Spurbooks

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