The Origins of Anglo-Saxon Towns

This exciting, original study outlines an argument with implications for the course of medieval European history. It weaves together a surprising new argument from an imaginative examination of a wealth of new data from Anglo-Saxon England, Continental Europe and Scandinavia. The result is a thesis as original as the Pirenne paradigm to which it pays homage. – Søren M. Sindbæk, Professor of Medieval Archaeology, Aarhus University, Denmark

Richard Hodges OBE is Emeritus President of The American University of Rome, Italy. He is the editor of the Debates in Archaeology series; and his publications include Dark Age Economics (2012), The Anglo-Saxon Achievement (1989), Towns and Trade in the Age of Charlemagne (2000), Goodbye to the Vikings (2006) and (as co-author) Villa to Village (2003), all published by Bloomsbury Academic. He has previously been Scientific Director of the Butrint Foundation, Albania, and Williams Director of the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, USA.