Dark Age Economics A New Audit
by Hodges, RichardFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2012-07-05
Publisher(s): Bristol Classical Press
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Summary
This timely, concise volume enlarges on the debate that still continues twenty-five years after Richard Hodges' ground-breaking Dark Age Economics was first published. Special attention is given to the archaeological, anthropological and historical models about gift and commodity exchange, pertinent to western Europe during the 7th to 10th centuries, and how these debates shed new light on the evolution of towns. One theme of the book examines the role of the elite in economic practice. Twenty-five years ago archaeologists and historians challenged this; today, paradoxically, as government plays a reduced role in managing our economies, medieval archaeologists and historians concur that the economics of the Early Middle Ages were highly regulated.
Author Biography
Richard 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.
Table of Contents
Preface
The Debate
Models
The 'Original Affluent Society'?
Of 'Mushroom Cities' and 'Mouseholes'
New Directions
Bibliography
Index
The Debate
Models
The 'Original Affluent Society'?
Of 'Mushroom Cities' and 'Mouseholes'
New Directions
Bibliography
Index
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