This book, first published in 2002, is about the economy of the Carolingian empire (753-877), which extended from the Pyrenees and the northern shores of the Mediterranean to the North Sea, and from the Atlantic coast to the Elbe and Saale rivers. It...

For more than fifty years no synthesis has been written which systematically examines the growth and development of cities in north- west Europe. Adriaan Verhulst takes as his subject the history of urban settlements and towns in the region between the...