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From the Baltic to the Black Sea

Studies in Medieval Archaeology

David Austin editor Leslie Alcock editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:5th Jun '97

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Offers a rare insight into the closed world of medieval Eastern Europe and opens up a neglected archaeological tradition to English-speaking readers. Sections focus on early European ethnic formations and states, the demography of medieval populations and the nature of rural settlement and urban development. The book challenges the intellectual assumptions of medieval archaeology and questions its relationship to history and prehistory. It exposes the limitations of a strictly empirical approach to studying the period when written history began and the early medieval states emerged.

`Lays the foundation for a new approach to the archaeology of the Middle Ages which will be disregarded by existing practitioners at their peril - British Archaeological News

...contains papers that are of great methodological and substantive interest - Proceedings of the Prehistory Society

ISBN: 9780415152259

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 640g

348 pages