Archaeology, Economy and Society. England from the 5th to the 15th Century, 1993, 256 p., 59 ill. -

Many books have been written on particular aspects of medieval archaeology, but synthesis across the whole spectrum has not been attempted before. The aim of this book is to examine the contribution that archaeology can make to an understanding of the social, economic, religious and other developments that took place in England from the migrations of the 5 and 6th centuries to the beginning of the Renaissance, showing how society and economy evolved in that time-span. Drawing on the latest material of the post-Roman period in order to emphasize the changes that can be observed in the physical evidence and some of the reasons that can be suggested. The environment in which people functioned and how they expressed themselves show how they were constrained by social customs and economic pressures.