Early Medieval Settlements: The Archaeology of Rural Communities in North-West Europe 400-900

Without doubt, this is one of the most important books currently available on the early medieval economy and its effect upon the developing landscape. ― Landscape History

… scholarly and elegantly presented … The survey is wide-ranging, lucid, and thought-provoking as well as precisely exemplified. ― Medium Aevum

… provides a fine example of what this relatively new discipline can bring to our understanding of the immediate post-Roman period. ― The Economic History Review

Hamerow’s arguments are clearly put accross and based upon a sound, reliable and detailed knowledge of the evidence, which makes them profitable to read and rewarding to engage with. ― English Historical Review

Hamerow is the leading British student of post-Roman rural settlement and, as one would expect, this long-awaited synthesis presents a wealth of extremely useful information, accompanied by clear and consistent plans and diagrams. ― English Historical Review

While certainly accessible to historians, this book also deserves a substantial readership among archaelogists, not least because it thoughtfully presents a great deal of material that would otherwise be inaccessible to the increasingly ‘Anglolexic’ world of British archaeology. ― English Historical Review

… attractively produced and interesting new book. ― English Historical Review

Hamerow’s book is well produced. It should be read and consulted by all students of early medieval archaeology, both on the British and on the continental side of the North Sea. ― The Agricultural History Review

… the author has made a large body of archaeological information from the continent accessible to British students. ― The Agricultural History Review

Hamerow has produced a fundamentally important comparison of the rural settlement and social history of Early Medieval communities around the North Sea, which demonstrates beyond doubt the value of studying Britain within the context of mainland Europe. ― British Archaeology

… especially strong in its social analysis of buildings and settlement morphology, reflecting the author’s long-standing research in this field. ― British Archaeology

… this book should provide a most helpful resource for students and reference book for a wide range of specialists with interests in the economic and social history of Early-medieval Europe. ― John Hines, The Medieval Review

It is much to be welcomed that a publishing house of the weight of the Oxford University Press is willing to launch a series of monographs in Medieval History and Archaeology, and the series is off to a fine start with this volume. ― John Hines, The Medieval Review