1st Edition
Becoming Europe: Archaeology and the Making of the Middle Ages
List of Illustrations
Maps
Preface and Acknowledgements
0. Introduction: Becoming Europe?
1. Archaeology, History and a Noiseless World
2. The Great Divergence: ‘an Ice Age settled on the Roman Empire’
3. The Tintagel age before an English revolution
4. Towards a point of inflection: the long 8th century
5. Establishing European values, c.AD 790-850
6. Take off and the revival of the Mediterranean
7. Conclusion
References
Index
Biography
Richard Hodges OBE is Emeritus President of The American University of Rome. His publications include Dark Age Economics (1982/2012), The Anglo-Saxon Achievement (1989), (as co-author) Villa to Village (2003), Goodbye to the Vikings (2006), Placemaking in Mediterranean Archaeology (2016), Butrint. At the Crossroads of the Mediterranean (2025) and The Origins of Anglo-Saxon Towns (2025) He has directed excavations in England, Albania and Italy. He has been Scientific Director of the Butrint Foundation, Director of the British School at. Rome, and Williams Director of the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, USA.
