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From the Baltic to the Black Sea

studies in medieval archaeology

By David Austin,Leslie Alcock

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Publish Date

1990

Publisher

Unwin Hyman,Routledge

Language

eng

Pages

322

Description:

From the Baltic to the Black Sea offers a rare insight into the closed world of medieval Eastern Europe and opens up a neglected archaeological tradition to English-speaking readers. Selections 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. -- Publishers description.