Introduction: new light on the Dark Ages?
Pirenne and the question of demand in the sixth century
King Arthur's Britain and the end of the western Roman empire
Balkan ghosts? nationalism and the question of rural continuity in Albania / William Bowden
Dark Age economics revisited
San Vincenzo al Volturno and the plan of St Gall
The ninth-century collective workshop at San Vincenzo al Volturno
Beyond feudalism: monasteries and their management in the eighth and ninth centuries
Society, power and the first English industrial revolution
Conclusions: Pirenne after McCormick.
