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

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McCormick, Michael

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Cambridge University Press

Publication Date

2001

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English

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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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Subjects

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Commerce
Comércio (história)
Comércio (história) -- Europa
Commerce
Communicatie
Comércio (história)
Comércio (história) -- Europa
Conditions économiques
Economia internacional (história)
Economia internacional (história) -- Europa
Economia internacional (história)
Economia internacional (história) -- Europa
Economic conditions
Economische situatie
Europa
Europe -- Commerce -- Histoire
Europe -- Commerce -- History
Europe -- Conditions économiques -- Jusqu'à 1492
Europe -- Economic conditions -- To 1492
Fernhandel
Handel
Histoire
Historisk framstilling
History
Kommunikasjon (Samferdsel)
Migratie (demografie)
Senantikken
Tidlig middelalder
Wirtschaft
Økonomi

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9780521661027
9780521667814
9781316344996
9781316345696
9781316346235
052166781
9781107050693
9781316348499
9781316347362

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