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Economic Calamity

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Robin Fleming, a one-time junior fellow in the Harvard University Society of Fellows, is using her year as a Radcliffe Fellow to finish her third book, “Living and Dying in Early Medieval Britain.” She recently gave a lecture on economic calamity in early medieval Britain, and how people in desperate straits turned to “recycling” Roman ruins for what they needed.

Medieval recycling

A historian looks at fifth century Britain to shed fresh light on ‘reduce, reuse, recycle’

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