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Between Classical antiquity and the Middle Ages: new evidence of economic change

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Klavs Randsborg*
Affiliation:
University of Copenhagen, Institute of Archaeology, Vandkunsten 5, DK-1467 Copenhagen, Denmark

Abstract

New archaeological evidence, principally from rural settlements, questions previous conceptions of the economic background to the transition from the Roman Empire to the Middle Ages. In particular, finds from the Balkans, a geographical ‘hinge’ between North and South and East and West, is discussed. The major periods of change are both the 5th and the 7th centuries AD.

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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1990

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