Dark Age Economics

Richard Hodges is Professor and Director of the Institute of World Archaeology, University of East Anglia. He is the editor of this series and author of many books including Dark Age Economics, The Anglo-Saxon Achievement, Towns and Trade in the Age of Charlemagne, Goodbye to the Vikings and (with Riccardo Francovich) Villa to Village, all published by Duckworth.

• Preface The Debate Models The 'Original Affluent Society'? Of 'Mushroom Cities' and 'Mouseholes' New Directions Bibliography Index

Richard 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.