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Trade and Markets in Byzantium

Trade and Markets in Byzantium

Bakirtzi, Demetra
Morrisson, Cécile
Binggeli, André

Hardcover

Series: Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Symposia and Colloquia

Business GeneralEconomicsMedieval & Renaissance History

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ISBN10: 088402377X
ISBN13: 9780884023777
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
Published: Sep 10 2012
Pages: 472
Weight: 3.90
Height: 1.30 Width: 8.70 Depth: 11.20
Language: English
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.

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