Trade and Markets in Byzantium - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Trade and Markets in Byzantium write by Cécile Morrisson. This book was released on 2012. Trade and Markets in Byzantium available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How are markets in antiquity to be characterized? As comparable to modern free markets? As controlled by the State? Or in completely different terms, as free but regulated? Here, scholars address these and related questions by reexamining and reinterpreting records from Byzantium and its hinterland for local, regional, and interregional trade.
Byzantine Trade, 4th-12th Centuries
Byzantine Trade, 4th-12th Centuries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Byzantine Trade, 4th-12th Centuries write by Marlia Mundell Mango. This book was released on 2016-12-05. Byzantine Trade, 4th-12th Centuries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The 28 papers examine questions relating to the extent and nature of Byzantine trade from Late Antiquity into the Middle Ages. The Byzantine state was the only political entity of the Mediterranean to survive Antiquity and thus offers a theoretical standard against which to measure diachronic and regional changes in trading practices within the area and beyond. To complement previous extensive work on late antique long-distance trade within the Mediterranean (based on the grain supply, amphorae and fine ware circulation), the papers concentrate on local and international trade. The emphasis is on recently uncovered or studied archaeological evidence relating to key topics. These include local retail organisation within the city, some regional markets within the empire, the production and/or circulation patterns of particular goods (metalware, ivory and bone, glass, pottery), and objects of international trade, both exports such as wine and glass, imports such as materia medica, and the lack of importation of, for example, Sasanian pottery. In particular, new work relating to specific regions of Byzantium's international trade is highlighted: in Britain, the Levant, the Red Sea, the Black Sea and China. Papers of the 38th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, held in 2004 at Oxford under the auspices of the Committee for Byzantine Studies.
The Byzantine Economy
The Byzantine Economy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Byzantine Economy write by Angeliki E. Laiou. This book was released on 2007-09-20. The Byzantine Economy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a concise survey of the economy of the Byzantine Empire from the fourth century AD to the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Organised chronologically, the book addresses key themes such as demography, agriculture, manufacturing and the urban economy, trade, monetary developments, and the role of the state and ideology. It provides a comprehensive overview of the economy with an emphasis on the economic actions of the state and the productive role of the city and non-economic actors, such as landlords, artisans and money-changers. The final chapter compares the Byzantine economy with the economies of western Europe and concludes that the Byzantine economy was one of the most successful examples of a mixed economy in the pre-industrial world. This is the only concise general history of the Byzantine economy and will be essential reading for students of economic history, Byzantine history and medieval history more generally.
A Companion to Byzantium and the West, 900-1204
A Companion to Byzantium and the West, 900-1204 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Companion to Byzantium and the West, 900-1204 write by Nicolas Drocourt. This book was released on 2021-12-09. A Companion to Byzantium and the West, 900-1204 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The eighteen chapters of this book explore the complex history of exchange between Byzantium and the Latin West over a period of more than three hundred years, with a focus on the political, ecclesiastical and cultural spheres. Besides outlining the history of competition and collaboration between two empires in medieval Europe, a range of regional approaches, stretching from England to the Crusader kingdoms, offer insights into the many aspects of Byzantine-Latin contact and exchange. Further sections explore patterns of mutual perception, linguistic and material dimensions of the contacts, as well as the role played by various groups of "cultural brokers" such as ambassadors, merchants, monks and Jewish communities. Contributors are: Axel Bayer, Saskia Dönitz, Nicolas Drocourt, Leonie Exarchos, Daniel Föller, Christian Gastgeber, Hans-Werner Goetz, Dominik Heher, Klaus Herbers, Christopher Hobbs, David Jacoby, Sebastian Kolditz, Savvas Neocleous, Johannes Pahlitzsch, Annick Peters-Custot, Miriam Salzmann, Jonathan Shepard, Juan Signes Codoñer, and Eleni Tounta"--
Merchants, Markets, and Exchange in the Pre-Columbian World
Merchants, Markets, and Exchange in the Pre-Columbian World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Merchants, Markets, and Exchange in the Pre-Columbian World write by Kenn Hirth. This book was released on 2013. Merchants, Markets, and Exchange in the Pre-Columbian World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This title examines the structure, scale and complexity of economic systems in the pre-Hispanic Americas, with a focus on the central highlands of Mexico, the Maya Lowlands and the central Andes.
