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

This is an illustrated study of towns and trade in the age of Charlemagne, in the Debates in Archaeology 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. The rebirth of urbanism in Carolingian Europe is examined in this text. Drawing upon new archaeological evidence from England and the Mediterranean, Richard Hodges looks at the development of towns from Roman antiquity to the age of Charlemagne In the DUCKWORTH DEBATES IN ARCHAEOLOGY series, an illustrated study of towns and trade in the age of Charlemagne which discusses urban continuity and discontinuity in Europe during the Dark Ages. Rudolf Moosbruger-Leu's objection that 'archaeology has primarily the ethnic aspects of life before its eyes, history has rather the political' is less and less true.