Description
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.
Reviews
Book Information
ISBN 9780415152259
Author Leslie Alcock
Format Paperback
Page Count 348
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 640g
Reviews
`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
Book Information
ISBN 9780415152259
Author Leslie Alcock
Format Paperback
Page Count 348
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 640g
