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Book SynopsisRichard Hodges, OBE, is Professor and Director of the Institute of World Archaeology, University of East Anglia, UK, and Director of the Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, USA. He is the editor of this series; his publications include
Dark Age Economics, The Anglo-Saxon Achievement, Towns and Trade in the Age of Charlemagne, Goodbye to the Vikings and (as co-author)
Villa to Village, all published by Bloomsbury.
Trade ReviewRichard Hodges’
Dark Age Economics: The Origins of Towns and Trade (1982) was one of the most influential and provocative works on early medieval archaeology in the latter part of the 20th century . . .
Dark Age Economics: A New Audit sees Hodges survey the impact of his work and summarise his current thinking on the issues that it raised. For each, it makes for a stimulating and thought-provoking read . . . [The book] provides an extraordinary wealth of ideas for further cogitation; like its predecessor, it deserves to be read and discussed extensively. -- A Merrills, University of Leicester * Medieval Archaeology *
This is a distinguished archaeologist’s overview of the current assessment of the early medieval economy since his
Dark Age Economics: The Origins of Towns and Trade AD 600–1000 (1982) … Perhaps of greatest interest to readers will be Chapter 4, which reports recent scholarship on monasteries, focusing on San Vincenzo at Volturno in Beneventum as it adjusted its production to its changing environment in the eighth and ninth centuries. -- David Tandy, University of Leeds * Religious Studies Review *
Table of ContentsPreface The Debate Models The 'Original Affluent Society'? Of 'Mushroom Cities' and 'Mouseholes' New Directions Bibliography Index
