Towns and Trade in the Age of CharlemagneThis 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. |
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Abbasid Age of Charlemagne Amorion Anglo-Saxon Anjar Arab archaeological evidence archaeology Birka Brogiolo and Gelichi buildings Butrint Byzantine Byzantium caliphate Carolingian age Carolingian renaissance centres Charlemagne churches classical coins Constantinople Crypta Balbi cultural Dark Age Economics debate Delogu Dorestad early medieval eighth century elephant elite Empire emporia emporium England Eoforwic Europe European Goff grid Haithabu Haldon Hamwic hectares Henri Pirenne historians ideology illustrate investment Ipswich Islamic Italy King Alfred Krautheimer late antiquity late Roman Latin Christendom Lebecq London long-distance trade Lundenburg Lundenwic Medemblik medieval towns Mediterranean Merovingian Metcalf Middle Ages mints Mohammed and Charlemagne monasteries ninth century non-places North Sea open-area excavation palace Pirenne Pirenne's thesis places ports pottery production Quentovic regional Rhine Ribe Richard Hodges river Rome Saguì San Vincenzo settlement seventh century southern streets Tiel tion townlife transformation Umayyad urban Venice Verhulst Viking Vincenzo al Volturno Ward-Perkins West Wickham workshops written sources