Research Catalog

Title

Trade and markets in Byzantium / edited by Cécile Morrisson.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, c2012.

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Additional Authors

• McCormick, Michael, 1951-
• Haldon, John F.
• Laiou, Angeliki E.
• Koder, Johannes.
• Walmsley, Alan, 1952-
• Pitarakis, Brigitte.
• Morrisson, Cécile.
• Morrisson, Cécile

Description

ix, 459 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.); 29 cm.

Summary

How are markets in antiquity to be characterized? As comparable to modern free markets, with differences in scale not quality? As controlled and dominated by the State? Or as a third way, in completely different terms, as free but regulated? In Trade and Markets in Byzantium seventeen scholars address these and related issues by reexamining and reinterpreting the material and textual record from Byzantium and its hinterland for local, regional, and interregional trade. Special emphasis is placed on local trade, which has been understudied. To comprehend the recovery of long-distance trade from its eighth-century nadir to the economic prosperity enjoyed in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the authors analyze the variety and complexity of the exchange networks, the role of money as a measure of exchange, and the character of local markets. This collection of groundbreaking research will prove to be indispensable for anyone interested in economic history in antiquity and the medieval period.

Series Statement

Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine symposia and colloquia

Uniform Title

Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine symposia and colloquia

Subject

• Geschichte
• Byzantine Empire > Commerce > History
• Byzantine Empire > Economic conditions

Genre/Form

History

Note

• "This book emerged from the 2008 Spring Symposium held at Dumbarton Oaks 2-4 May"--P. ix.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction / Cécile Morrisson -- Late antiquity and the early Middle Ages -- Were late Roman and Byzantine economies market economies? : a comparative look at historiography / Jean-Michel Carrié -- Regional and interregional exchanges in the eastern Mediterranean during the early Byzantine period : the evidence of the amphorae / Dominique Pieri -- Movements and markets in the first millenium : information, containers, and shipwrecks / Michael McCormick -- Commerce and exchange in the seventh and eighth centuries : regional trade and the movement of goods / John F. Haldon -- The middle and late Byzantine periods -- Regional networks in the Balkans in the middle and late Byzantine periods / Angeliki E. Laiou -- Regional networks in Asia Minor during the middle Byzantine period / Johannes Koder -- Business as usual? : archaeological evidence for Byzantine commercial enterprise at Ammorium in the seventh to eleventh centuries / Christopher Lightfoot -- Byzantine glazed ceramics on the market : an approach / Demetra Papanikola-Bakirtzi -- West and East local exchange in neighboring worlds -- Local and interregional exchanges in the lower Po Valley, eighth-ninth centuries / Sauro Gelichi -- Adriatic trade networks in the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries / Rowan W. Dorin -- Annual fairs, regional networks, and trade routes in Syria, sixth-tenth centuries / André Binggeli -- Trade and economy in Antioch and Cilicia in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries / Scott Redford -- Regional exchange and the role of the shop in Byzantine and early Islamic Syria-Palestine : an archaeological view / Alan Walmsley --
• Markets and the marketplace -- From polis to emporion? : retail and regulation in the late antique city / Luke Lavan -- Weighing, measuring, paying : exchanges in the market and the marketplace / Cécile Morrisson -- Daily life at the marketplace in late antiquity and Byzantium / Brigitte Pitarakis -- Conclusion -- Byzantine trade : summary and prospect / Peter Temin.

ISBN

• 9780884023777 (hbk. : alk. paper)
• 088402377X (hbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2011046482

OCLC

• 758383347
• SCSB-10700440

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library