SIGNED BY AUTHOR WITH DEDICATION to Yoram Tsafrir dated March 2006. The author - Michael McCormick, is an eminent historian and archaeologist of the late Roman Empire and early medieval Europe, Francis Goelet Professor of Medieval History at Harvard University. Contains many maps, figures/plates, tables and charts, bibliographies of primary and secondary sources, and an index. 2.5kg. 250x180mm. XXVIII+1101 pages. Dark blue cloth Hardcover with illustrated dust-jacket. Jacket rubbed. Jacket edges/corners wrinkled and slightly worn/bumped. Cover bottom corners and spine edges bumped/wrinkled. Few pages bottom corner bumped/wrinkled. This extremely rare first comprehensive analysis for over sixty years of the economic transition from Antiquity to Middle Ages, signed by author with dedication to an eminent archaeologist, is in good condition.