The Sixth Century

Production, Distribution and Demand
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-90-04-10980-3
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Buch, Englisch, Französisch, Band 3, 302 Seiten, Gewicht: 688 g

Reihe: Transformation of the Roman World

This collection of essays examines the sixth century A.D. from a new perspective. Being a result of the European Science Foundation s programme devoted to the transformation of the Roman World, the authors examine the economic and social conditions of a century which has often been overlooked. The book takes a European overview, and includes studies by archaeologists and historians whom, in the course of the ESF project, have developed a lively dialogue focussing upon the issue of demand in the sixth century. An archaeologist poses many of theleading arguments in the first chapter, and an historian draws these themes together in the final one. The book includes a major review of the historiography of Henri Pirenne's celebrated thesis devoted to the decline of the Roman empire and the beginnings of the Middle Ages. The majority of the essays, however, are regional studies approaching the subject with a new wide-angled, European vision.

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Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Richard Hodges - Henri Pirenne and the question of demand in the sixth century
Paolo Delogu - Reading Pirenne again
Carlo Bertelli - The production and distribution of books in Antiquity
Klavs Randsborg - The Migration Period: model history and treasure
Jean Durliat - Les conditions du commerce au VIe siècle
Federico Marazzi - The destinies of the Late Antique Italies: politico-economic developments of the sixth century
Sonia Gutiérrez Lloret - Eastern Spain in the sixth century in the light of archaeology
Stéphane Lebecq - Les échanges dans la Gaule du Nord au VIe siècle: une histoire en miettes
Simon Loseby - Marseille and the Pirenne Thesis, I: Gregory of Tours, the Merovingian kings and "un grand port"
Ian Wood - The frontiers of western Europe: developments east of the Rhine in the sixth century
Ulf Näsman - The Justinianic era of south Scandinavia: an archaeological view
Chris Wickham - Overview: production, distribution and demand

Über Autor(innen)

Richard Hodges is Professor in the School of World Art Studies and Museology, University of East Anglia and Director of the Prince of Wales's Institute of Architecture. His amin archaeological excavations are at Butrint, Albania and San Vincenzo al Volturno, Italy. His books include Dark Age Economics (1982), The Anglo-Saxon Achievement (1989) and Light in the Dark Ages (1997).
William Bowden, Ph.D. (2000) in Archaeology, University of East Anglia, is Packard Research Fellow in the School of World Art Studies at the University of East Anglia and a co-director of excavations at Butrint, Albania.