Dark age economics : a new audit / Richard Hodges.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hodges, Richard.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns, Medieval.

History.

Europe--Economic conditions--To 1492.

Europe.

Economic conditions.

Economic history--Medieval, 500-1500.

Economic history.

Economic history--Medieval.

Cities and towns, Medieval--History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 160 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Bristol Classical Press, 2012.

Summary:

"In Dark age economics: a new audit, Richard Hodges reviews and enlarges upon the debate that his ground-breaking Dark age economics: the origins of towns and trade launched thirty years ago. 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, Professor Hodges advances a new thesis about the shift from the consumption economies of Antiquity to the emphasis on production in the Middle Ages"--P. [4] of cover.

Contents:

The debate

'Forget the Trobriand Islands, the Kula Ring"?: models for early medieval economics

A golden age of peasantry: the 'original affluent society'?

Shrine franchises: monastic cities and the transformation of the European economy

Debating the history of 'mushroom cities'

Audit: the 'hypostatic union of idea and material.'

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references ( pages 139-155) and index.

ISBN:

9780715636794

0715636790

OCLC:

808441363