| Abstract: |
Examines the archaeological evidence for the social, economic, religious, and other developments between the Migration period and the start of the Renaissance, tracing the changes that took place and some of the reasons for them. Chapters treat the 5th and 6th centuries, reorganization among the ruins; the later 6th and 7th, Christianity and commerce; the later 7th and 8th, princes and power; the 9th and early 10th, holding out against the heathens; the 10th century, towns and trade; the 11th, social stress; the 12th and 13th, community and constraint; the later 13th and 14th, luxury in a cold climate; and the later 14th to early 16th, into a new age? |
