Dark Age Economics - A New Audit

Informationen zum Autor Richard Hodges OBE is Emeritus President of The American University of Rome, Italy. He is the editor of the Debates in Archaeology series; and his publications include Dark Age Economics (2012), The Anglo-Saxon Achievement (1991), Towns and Trade in the Age of Charlemagne (2000), Goodbye to the Vikings (2006) and (as co-author) Villa to Village (2003), all published by Bloomsbury Academic. He has previously been Director of Archaeology for the Butrint Foundation, Albania, and Director of the Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, USA. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface The Debate Models The 'Original Affluent Society'? Of 'Mushroom Cities' and 'Mouseholes' New Directions Bibliography Index

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• Authors: Dr Richard (The American University of Rome Hodges, Richard Hodges
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.07.2012
• EAN: 9780715636794
• ISBN: 978-0-7156-3679-4
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Duckworth Debates in Archaeolo; Duckworth Debates in Archaeolo
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Europe, European History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Economic history, CE period up to c 1500, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Archaeology by period / region, c 500 to c 1000 CE, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, Medieval European archaeology