The economic history of Byzantium
Subtitle: from the seventh through the fifteenth century
By: Angeliki E. Laiou, editor-in-chief ; scholarly committees, Charalambos Bouras ... [et al.].
Contributors: Laiou, Angeliki E.; Bouras, Charalampos.
Series: Dumbarton Oaks studies ; 39
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1364
ISBN-13: 9780884023326
Subjects: Byzantine Empire -- Economic conditions.; Byzantine Empire -- Commerce -- History.
Description: Examines the structures and dynamics of the Byzantine economy and the factors that contributed to its development over time. Addresses the environment, resources, communications, production techniques, the urban economy, exchange, trade, market forces, and economic institutions and the state. A global study of one of the most successful medieval economies.
Table of contents: title: Volume 1: Writing the economic history of Byzantium; title: Political history: an outline; title: I: The natural environment, resources, communications, and production techniques; title: Physical factors in the evolution of the landscape and lane use; title: The human resources; title: Land and sea communications, fourth-fifteenth centuries; title: Ships; title: The means of agricultural production: muscle and tools; title: Mining; title: Metallurgy and metalworking techniques; title: Marble and stoneworking in Byzantium, seventh-fifteenth centuries; title: Essential processes, looms, and technical aspects of the production of silk textiles; title: II: The sixth century, background; title: The sixth-century economy; title: Anemourion; title: III: Structures, organization, and development of production agriculture; title: The rural economy, seventh-twelfth centuries; title: The agrarian economy, thirteenth-fifteenth centuries; title: Byzantium and the Mediterranean agrarian civilization; title: Volume 2: The urban economy, seventh-twelfth centuries; title: The late Byzantine urban economy, thirteenth-fifteenth centuries; title: Aspects of the Byzantine city, eighth-fifteenth centuries; title: Medieval Constantinople: built environment and urban development; title: Master craftsmen, craftsmen, and building activities in Byzantium; title: The industries of art; title: Writing materials, documents, and books; title: Pottery and glass in Byzantium; title: Byzantine weights; title: Sardis; title: The urban economy of Pergamon; title: Thebes; title: Medieval Athens; title: Corinth; title: Numismatic circulation in Corinth from 976 to 1204; title: Kherson and its region; title: Preslav; title: Turnovo, sixth-fourteenth centuries; title: 4: Exchange, trade, and markets; title: Economic and noneconomic exchange; title: Exchange and trade, seventh-twelfth centuries; title: Commerce, trade, markets, and money, thirteenth-fifteenth centuries; title: The Levant trade in the Middle Ages; title: Prices and wages in the Byzantine world; title: Monemvasia, seventh-fifteenth centuries; title: Byzantine shipwrecks; title: Volume 3: 5: Economic institutions and the state; title: Byzantine money: its production and circulation; title: A note on monetary mechanisms, east and west; title: The role of the Byzantine state in the economy; title: Legal institutions and practice in matters of Ecclesiastical property; title: Protimesis (preemption) in Byzantium; title: Byzantine legislation on economic activity relative to social class; title: The Byzantine law of interest; title: Legal aspects of the financing of trade; title: 6: General traits of the Byzantine economy; title: Economic thought and ideology; title: The Byzantine economy: an overview.