Richard Hodges

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Richard Hodges (born September 29, 1952 ) is a British medieval archaeologist who mainly deals with the commercial and economic history of the European Early Middle Ages.

His work Dark Age Economics (1982), Mohammed, Charlemagne and the Origins of Europe (1983) and Light in the Dark Ages: The Rise and Fall of San Vincenzo Al Volturno (1997) analyzed the transition from antiquity to the Middle Ages from the perspective of economic issues Continuity and extensive trade links between Northern Europe and the Mediterranean, using the Pirenne thesis as a point of reference. Hodges represents the direction of processual archeology or new archeology , which is particularly rejected in German archeology of the Middle Ages . Hodges was director of the British School at Rome from 1988 to 1995 and carries out excavations in the monastery of San Vincenzo al Volturno in Italy and Butrint (Albania). More recently he has published on the Viking Age sea trading centers on the North and Baltic Seas.

From 1995 to 2007 he was Professor and Director of the Institute of World Archeology at the University of East Anglia . From 2007 to 2012, Hodges was director of the Museum of Archeology and Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia . He has been President of the American University of Rome since 2012 .

Publications (selection)

  • The Hamwic Pottery: the local and imported wares from thirty years' excavations in Southampton and their European context . London 1981.
  • together with Graeme Barker : Archeology and Italian Society . Oxford 1982.
  • Dark Age Economics: The Origins of Town and Trade . London / New York 1982.
  • Primitive and Peasant Markets . Oxford 1988.
  • The Anglo-Saxon Achievement: Archeology and the beginnings of English Society . London / Ithaca 1989.
  • Early Medieval archeology in Western Europe: its history and development . Bangor 1991.
  • Wall-to-Wall History: The Story of Roystone Grange . London 1991 (winner of the British Archaeological book of the year 1992).
  • Light in the Dark Ages. The Rise and Fall of San Vincenzo al Volturno . London / Ithaca 1997.
  • Towns and Trade in the Age Charlemagne . London 2000.
  • Visions of Rome. Thomas Ashby, archaeologist . London 2000.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ R. Hodges, Method and Theory in Medieval Archeology. Archeologia Medievale (Firenze) 9, 1982, 7-38.
  2. ↑ Olszewski (2008, pp.4–5)
  3. ^ University of Pennsylvania (2007, p.1)
  4. ^ Page at the American University of Rome

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personal data
SURNAME Hodges, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1952