Trade and Markets in Byzantium

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-88402-377-7
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 472 Seiten, Format (B × H): 222 mm x 284 mm, Gewicht: 1746 g

Reihe: Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Symposia and Colloquia

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Morrisson, Cecile

Morrisson, Cécile

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bakirtzi, Demetra

Binggeli, André

Dorin, Rowan

Galechi, Sauro

Haldon, John

Koder, Johannes

Laiou, Angeliki E.

Lavan, Luke

Lightfoot, Christopher

McCormick, Michael

Pieri, Dominique

Pitarkis, Brigitte

Redford, Scott

Temin, Peter

Walmsley, Alan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Redford, Scott
Scott Redford is Associate Professor, Department of Archaeology and History of Art, and Director of the Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations at Koç University, Istanbul.

Bakirtzi, Demetra
Demetra Bakirtzi is an archaeologist in the Greek Archaeological Service.

Lavan, Luke
Luke Lavan is a Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Kent.

Pieri, Dominique
Dominique Pieri teaches late Roman and Early Byzantine archaeology at Panthéon University in Paris.

Morrisson, Cécile
Cécile Morrisson is Director of Research Emerita at Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris, and Advisor for Byzantine Numismatics at Dumbarton Oaks.

Koder, Johannes
Johannes Koder is Emeritus Professor at the Institute for Byzantine and Neohellenic Studies at the University of Vienna.

Pitarkis, Brigitte
Brigitte Pitarkis is chargée de recherches at the Centre d’Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance, CNRS, Paris.

Binggeli, André
André Binggeli is a researcher at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris.

Temin, Peter
Peter Temin is Elisha Gray II Professor of Economics, Emeritus, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Dorin, Rowan
Rowan Dorin is a doctoral candidate at Harvard University.

Galechi, Sauro
Sauro Galechi is Professor of Medieval Archaeology at the University of Ca' Foscari of Venice.

Lightfoot, Christopher
Christopher Lightfoot is a curator of Greek and Roman Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

McCormick, Michael
Michael McCormick is Francis Goelet Professor of Medieval History at Harvard University.

Walmsley, Alan
Alan Walmsley is MSO Professor of Islamic Archaeology and Art at the University of Copenhagen.

Laiou, Angeliki E.
Angeliki E. Laiou was Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History at Harvard University.

Haldon, John
John Haldon is Professor of Byzantine History and Hellenic Studies at Princeton University.