Origins of the European economy : communications and commerce, A.D. 300-900

Origins of the European economy communications and commerce, A.D. 300-900

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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 movemen...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: McCormick, Michael, 1951- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press 2001.
Colección:CUP ebooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39758126*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Commerce, communication, and the origins of the European economy
  • PART I: THE END OF THE WORLD: The end of the ancient world
  • Late Roman industry: case studies in decline
  • Land and river communication in late antiquity
  • Sea change in late antiquity
  • The end of the ancient economy: a provisional balance sheet
  • PART II: PEOPLE ON THE MOVE: A few Western faces
  • Two hundred more Western envoys and pilgrims: group portrait
  • Byzantine faces
  • Easterners heating West; group portrait
  • Traders, slaves, and exiles
  • People on the move
  • PART III: THINGS THAT TRAVELED: Hagiographical collecting exotic relics in early medieval France
  • Virtual coins and communications
  • Real money: Arab and Byzantine coins around Carolingian Europe
  • Things that traveled
  • PART IV: THE PATTERN OF CHANGE: The experience of travel
  • Secular rhythm: communication over time
  • Seasonal rhythms
  • Time under way
  • Spaces of sea: Europe's Western Mediterranean communication
  • Venetian breakthrough: European communication in the central Mediterranean
  • New overland routes
  • The patterns of change
  • PART V: COMMERCE: Early medieval trading worlds
  • Where are the merchants? Italy
  • Merchants and markets of Frankland
  • Connections
  • Whre are the wares? Eastern imports to Europe
  • European exports to Africa and Asia
  • At the origins of the European economy
  • Appendixes: 1: Checklist of Mediterranean travelers, 700-900
  • 2: Mentions of mancosi to 850
  • 3: Catalogue of Arab and Byzantine coins in the West
  • 4: A register of Mediterranean communication, 700-900.

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