Origins of the European Economy Communications and Commerce AD 300-900

Name: Origins of the European Economy Communications and Commerce AD 300-900
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ISBN: 9780521661027

ISBN-10: 0521661021

ISBN-13: 9780521661027

Edition: 2001

Authors: Michael McCormick

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For fifty years debate has raged about early European commerce during the period between antiquity and the middle ages. Was there trade? If so, in what - and with whom? New evidence and new ways of looking at old evidence are now breaking the stalemate. Analysis of communications - the movements of people, ideas and things - is transforming our vision of Europe and the Mediterranean in the age of Charlemagne and Harun al Rashid. This is the first comprehensive analysis of the economic transition during this period for over sixty years. Using new materials and new methodology, it will attract all social and economic historians of antiquity and the middle ages, and anyone concerned with the…

Book details

List price: $167.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/17/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 1130
Size: 7.01" wide x 9.69" long x 2.60" tall
Weight: 5.500
Language: English




The End of the World



The end of the ancient world



Late Roman industry: case studies in decline



Land and river communications in late antiquity



Sea change in late antiquity ; The end of the ancient economy: a provisional balance sheet



People on the Move



A few western faces



Two hundred more envoys and pilgrims: group portrait



Byzantine faces



Easterners heading west: group portrait



Traders, slaves, and exiles : People on the move



Things that Travelled



Hagiographical horizons: collecting exotic relics in early medieval France



'Virtual' coins and communications



'Real money': Arab and Byzantine coins around Carolingian Europe ; Things on the move



The Patterns of Change



The experience of travel



Secular rhythms: communications over time



Seasonal rhythms



Time under way



'Spaces of sea': Europe's western Mediterranean communications



Venetian breakthrough: Europe's central Mediterranean communications



New overland routes






Commerce



Early medieval trading worlds



Where are the merchants?: Italy



Merchants and markets of Frankland



Connections



Where are the wares?: eastern imports to Europe



European exports to Africa and Asia ; At the origins of the European economy


Appendices


Bibliography.