Goodbye To The Vikings?Goodbye To The Vikings? Richard Hodges Richard Hodges OBE, FSA (born September 29, 1952) is a contemporary British archaeologist whose work primarily concerns trade and economics during the early part of the Middle Ages. He is a professor of the University of East Anglia. Duckworth c/o International Publishers Marketing 22841 Quicksilver quicksilver: see mercury. (1) (QuickSilver Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA, www.qstech.com) A mobile communications company that specializes in a reconfigurable logic chip for cellphones and PDAs. See adaptive computing. Drive, Dulles, VA 20166 0715634291, $31.00 www.ducknet.co.uk 1-800-758-3756 "Goodbye To The Vikings: Re-reading Early Medieval Archaeology The study of humankind through its material culture, specialising in the period of the European Middle Ages. At its broadest, the period stretches from the 5th to the 16th century CE and refers to post-Roman but pre modern remains. " by Richard Hodges (Director of the Institute of World Archaeology, School of World Art Studies, University of East Anglia “UEA” redirects here. For other uses, see UEA (disambiguation). Academically, it is one of the most successful universities founded in the 1960s, consistently ranking amongst Britain's top higher education institutions; 19th in the Sunday Times University League Table 2006 , and Scientific Director of the Butrint Foundation) presents an informed and informative reevaluation of what archaeology has to tell us about the daily life and communities of the Norsemen and their impact on the Europe from the British Isles to the Balkans. Of special interest are the chapters on 'King Arthur's Britain and the end of the western Roman empire'; 'Charlemagne's elephant'; and 'Beyond feudalism feudalism (fy  `dəlĭzəm), form of political and social organization typical of Western Europe from the dissolution of Charlemagne's empire to the rise of the absolute monarchies. : monasteries and their management in the eight and ninth centuries'. An impressive distillation of superb academic scholarship, "Goodbye To The Vikings" is a welcome and highly commended addition to academic library European History and Viking History reference collections and supplemental reading lists.
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